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The Silence of Sobibor - S01 / E02

Ep 2 Stories from the soil

You can form an idea of what Auschwitz looked like just by walking around it, as the iconic gatehouse with its fencing is still there. In Sobibor, almost the entire camp was razed to the ground.

Sobibor was a secret camp where no photos were allowed. It was a visual black hole in history until a camp guard's grandson found some photo albums in his grandmother's attic. Suddenly, Sobibor gained a face.

In this episode, we follow Jules Schelvis, Philip Bialowitz, and Selma Wijnberg. They arrived on trains from the Netherlands packed with Jews. After four days in cattle cars, they stumbled out completely exhausted. "We fell out," says Selma. Within an hour, almost everyone from that train was crammed into the gas chambers. The door closed, a diesel engine started, and everyone was slowly gassed.

But a small group survived the camp; they had to help search victims' luggage for valuables or drag the bodies of their relatives from the gas chambers. In this episode, we also follow the archaeologists who sometimes found very personal belongings in Sobibor's soil.

We'd love to hear what you think of this episode: info@audiodroom.nl. For more information, visit the website of Stichting Sobibor (https://www.sobibor.org). Music written and performed by Mark Lobenstein (https://marklobenstein.com/?js_artist=mark_lobenstein). Spoken word created and performed by Ben Oranje (https://benoranje.nl).[5]springcast+1

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Over The Silence of Sobibor

Listen to the story of Sobibor. The extermination camp where more than 34,000 Dutch Jews were killed during the Second World War, yet today, hardly anyone knows the place. While Auschwitz grew to become a symbol of the war after 1945, Sobibor—as a site of guilt—fell into oblivion. During the production of this podcast, the creators gained access to a Russian archive that had remained closed until now. In that archive, they discovered unknown photographs of Sobibor that give the history of the camp a new turn. This series broadens and deepens our knowledge of Sobibor. This series was produced by Audiodroom Podcast Productions in collaboration with the Sobibor Foundation the Netherlands (Stichting Sobibor).

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