Sobibór was a German extermination camp that was part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor. It is also the name of the village outside which the camp was built, which is now part of Lublin Voivodship in Poland. The camp is located in a forest 12km south of the village of Sobibór in a small locality named Stare Kolonia Sobibór.

Jews, including Jewish Soviet POWs, and possibly Gypsies were transported to Sobibór by rail, and suffocated in gas chambers that were fed with the exhaust of a petrol engine. At least 250,000 people were killed in Sobibór. A memorial and museum are at the site today.

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