The State Museum at Majdanek presents the results of the latest research concerning the history of the German death camp in Sobibór. This study was carried out by Robert Kuwałek, a researcher working for our institution who suddenly died in 2014. In the study he tried to determine the balance of camp victims. At the end of his last research work there is an important conclusion to find which grows in importance in the light of finding the gas chamber foundations:

“My findings are similar to the results of research of some other historians that tried to estimate casualties in the death camp in Sobibór in previous years. About 170000–180000 casualties should be the closest to the truth. We should remember that each of them is behind great suffering of individuals and that Sobibór, like Bełżec and Treblinka, will be a symbol of a horrible mass crime of which not many are aware to this day.” The article will appear in print soon in the 26th volume of the journal „Zeszyty Majdanka.” In commemoration of the murdered in Sobibór whose biggest group constitute Jewish residents of the Lubelskie Region, we publish it in the online version first– in the 71st anniversary of the outbreak of the prisoners’ revolt on October 14th, 1943. The article can be downloaded here.