Weest wel met alle menschen. De ‘Kaapse brieven’ van Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh

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Sobibór death camp: awareness, memorialisation and re-conceptualization

Sobibór Death Camp was established by Nazi SS in the Lublin district of Poland in March 1942, as part of Operation Reinhard. The camp was shut down in 1943 after a prisoner uprising. In post-war memory discourses of the Holocaust, public awareness of Sobibór remained comparatively less than that of other sites of killing in Poland. This paper aims to provide an overview of the impact that the initial post-war treatment of the site had on the public awareness of Sobibór, whilst following the earlier stages of commemoration at the site, and how these developments reflect the wider debates of Polish Holocaust memory. It seeks to highlight the success of the most recent archaeological excavations which began in 2007, and the 2013 plans for a new museum and memorial