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322 LUBOML
Engel, a young Jew from Lodz. All together, the
rebels killed 12 Germans and four Ukrainian
guards. During the uprising, the Jews grabbed the
guns of the dead Germans and continued to use
them against their enemies, shooting at the
guards in the towers. The prisoners threw themselves
upon the barbed-wire fences, tore them
apart, and escaped. Many were blown up in the
mine-fields that surrounded the camp. The plotters
then put boards across the minefields in order
to make a path over the mines. More than
400 Jews fled to the woods! As the escaped group
stood around our beloved Sashka, he shouted to
us, "For Stalin! Hurrah!"
Divided into smaller groups, we ran in different
directions in the woods. The Germans,
however, organized a search party. As planes
strafed the woods, many Jews were killed. Only
50 Jews survived of the entire group. I was lucky
enough to reach Chelm, where I was hidden until
the Red Army entered the town. It was only
then that I, a survivor of Sobibor, felt I was alive
again.
After the uprising, the Germans killed all of
the remaining prisoners in Sobibor, burned them,
and dynamited the camp. The Germans who had
built the death camp at Sobibor were Golzeimer,
the chief inspector of the death camps, and the
civilian engineer, Mauser.
(Signed): Chayim Povroznik.
Chelm, August 10, 1944.