We now know what it was like to enter the Sobibor extermination camp, even though the Germans tried to keep its existence secret at the time. Prisoners revolted, they escaped and told the world what happened there. Only, the people who survived Sobibor are no longer with us. The people who consciously experienced the war as children will soon be gone too. Who will then tell what happened when there are no more eyewitnesses? Will the stories still be so vivid and personal?

In this episode, we speak with people who talk in schools and museums about their experiences as war children, as children of parents who perished in Sobibor. Can you still access your memories of that time even after eighty years? How do they find those puzzle pieces?

In this episode, you will also hear from German professor Harald Welzer. He is a social psychologist who investigated how perpetrators look back on their own actions after the Holocaust. According to him, we must be careful that the story about camps like Sobibor slowly turns into a film script, where the main characters are divided into purely good and evil.

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).

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