Sobibor extermination camp uprising

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Holocaust resistance event Jewish resistance World War II event prisoner revolt uprising

The Sobibor extermination camp uprising was a 1943 prisoner revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in which inmates organized a mass escape that led to the camp’s closure and became one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

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Label	Occurrences
Sobibor extermination camp uprising canonical	4
Sobibor uprising	2
Jewish resistance in Sobibor extermination camp	1
Sobibor extermination camp organization	1
Sobibor extermination camp uprising and escape	1

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Target entity: Sobibor extermination camp uprising
Context triple: [Alexander Pechersky, participatedIn, Sobibor extermination camp uprising]

A. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a 1943 Jewish-led armed resistance against Nazi efforts to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, becoming a powerful symbol of defiance during the Holocaust.
B. Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
C. Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
D. Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
E. Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Sobibor extermination camp uprising
Target entity description: The Sobibor extermination camp uprising was a 1943 prisoner revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in which inmates organized a mass escape that led to the camp’s closure and became one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.

A. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a 1943 Jewish-led armed resistance against Nazi efforts to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto, becoming a powerful symbol of defiance during the Holocaust.
B. Birkenau cycle
The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
C. Wawer massacre
The Wawer massacre was a World War II mass execution of Polish civilians by German occupiers near Warsaw in December 1939, regarded as one of the first large-scale Nazi atrocities against the Polish population.
D. Rumbula massacre
The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
E. Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust resistance event ⓘ Jewish resistance ⓘ World War II event ⓘ prisoner revolt ⓘ uprising ⓘ
aim	mass escape from Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ overthrow of camp guards ⓘ
casualties	many prisoners killed during escape ⓘ
commemoratedBy	memorials at former Sobibor site ⓘ
commemoratedOn	14 October ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
country	Nazi Germany ⓘ
date	1943-10-14 ⓘ
describedIn	historical research on Operation Reinhard camps ⓘ survivor testimonies ⓘ
followedBy	Aktion Erntefest reprisals in the Lublin district ⓘ
hasHistoricalSignificance	evidence of organized resistance in extermination camps ⓘ symbol of armed Jewish resistance ⓘ
leader	Alexander Pechersky ⓘ Leon Feldhendler ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	Poland ⓘ
location	Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ linked to: Sobibor
method	attempted seizure of weapons ⓘ luring SS officers into workshops and killing them ⓘ mass dash for the perimeter and surrounding forest ⓘ secret planning by prisoner underground ⓘ
notableFor	one of the most significant acts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust ⓘ successful mass breakout from a Nazi extermination camp ⓘ
opponent	German camp guards ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ SS ⓘ Ukrainian auxiliary guards ⓘ
organizedBy	Jewish prisoners ⓘ Soviet Jewish prisoners of war ⓘ
partOf	Holocaust ⓘ World War II ⓘ
perpetratorsTargeted	SS officers ⓘ camp command staff ⓘ
precededBy	Treblinka extermination camp uprising ⓘ linked to: Treblinka uprising
relatedTo	Jewish partisan activity ⓘ Nazi extermination camps ⓘ Operation Reinhard ⓘ
result	closure of Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ destruction of camp facilities by Nazis ⓘ liquidation of Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ mass escape of prisoners ⓘ
survivors	dozens of escapees survived the war ⓘ
triggered	Nazi decision to dismantle Sobibor extermination camp ⓘ
year	1943 ⓘ

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