Fugir de Sobibor... per acabar aquí / Escape from Sobibor... to end here
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1936; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 / 75mm; filtre groc; pelicula Ilford HP5+ 400, revelada amb Atomal 49 sense diluir. Aquesta càmera és contemporania a aquests fets.
Buscant amb Google Maps per l'entorn del camp d'extermini de Sobibor, on foren assassinades amb cambres de gas entre 175.000 i 250.000 persones, vaig trobar una nota que em va portar al mig dels tranquils i solitaris boscos que envolten completament el camp.
Com ja he comentat, a Sobibor els presoners varen poder organitzar una desesperada revolta el 14 d'octubre de 1943. Dels 700 presoners del Lager I, uns 350 varen provar de fugir tant per la porta com per les filferrades i camps de mines cap al sud del camp. Abans havien mort a 11 dels seus assassins de les SS i 2 auxiliars "trawnikis". Per desgracia molts varen morir a trets o per les mines en el mateix moment de la fugida, però els boscos, tot i que grans, tampoc oferien protecció total. En pocs dies, uns 170 dels que arribaren al bosc foren capturats i tornats a Sobibor per morir allà, o executats directament al bosc. Nomes varen sobreviure a la guerra 58 presoners.
Doncs un dels grups dels capturats i executats al bosc mateix son els d'aquesta fosa comuna marcada al bosc, a 7 km al sud de Sobibor i a uns 2 km del poblet de Zbereże. Se sap que hi ha els cadavers de 6 presoners jueus de Sobibor, així com de 2 jueus del mateix poble de Zbereże, pare i fill. Probablement els fugitius provaben de creuar el riu Bug cap a territori sovietic, ja que aquest està just després de Zbereze. Potser provaren de buscar l'ajuda dels jueus locals, que en tot cas no entenc com encara sobrevivien allà el 1943.
La seva tomba solitaria com a minim ara està marcada i algú hi porta llanties i flors...
zapomniane.org/en/miejsce/zbereze-2/
Aquesta foto forma part de tot un viatge pel centre de Polònia, enfocat especialment en els més tragics moments del Holocaust i la II Guerra Mundial, que esclafà Polonia com pocs llocs, però que alhora contrasta amb l'increible renaixement del país fins al moment actual.
Hi ha una pel·licula força acurada, anomenada Escape from Sobibor (1987). Està sencera a Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT8Bkrd6MsM
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Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1936; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens with yellow filter; Ilford HP5+ 400 film, developed in stock Atomal 49. This camera is contemporary with this events.
Searching with Google Maps around the Sobibor extermination camp, where between 175,000 and 250,000 people were murdered in gas chambers, I found a note that took me to the middle of the quiet and lonely forests that completely surround the camp.
As I have already mentioned, in Sobibor the prisoners were able to organize a desperate uprising on October 14, 1943. Of the 700 prisoners of Lager I, about 350 tried to escape both through the gate and through the barbed wire and minefields to the south of the camp. They had previously killed 11 of their SS murderers and 2 "trawniki" assistants. Unfortunately, many were shot or killed by mines at the same time as they escaped, but the forests, although large, did not offer complete protection either. Within a few days, about 170 of those who reached the forest were captured and returned to Sobibor to die there, or executed directly in the forest. Only 58 prisoners survived the war.
One of the groups of those captured and executed in the forest itself are those from this mass grave marked in the forest, 7 km south of Sobibor and about 2 km from the village of Zbereże. It is known that there are the bodies of 6 Jewish prisoners from Sobibor, as well as 2 Jews from the same village of Zbereże, father and son. The escapees were probably trying to cross the Bug River into Soviet territory, since this is just after Zbereze. Maybe they tried to seek help from the local Jews, who in any case I don't understand how they still survived there in 1943.
At least their lonely grave is now marked and someone is bringing flowers and wreaths...
zapomniane.org/en/miejsce/zbereze-2/
This photo is part of a trip through central Poland, focused especially on the most tragic moments of the Holocaust and World War II, which devastated Poland like few places, but which at the same time contrasts with the incredible rebirth of the country up to the present day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp
There is a very accurate telefilm called Escape from Sobibor (1987). It is available in its entirety on Youtube:
Fugir de Sobibor... per acabar aquí / Escape from Sobibor... to end here
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Rolleiflex Old Standard fabricada el 1936; objectiu Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 / 75mm; filtre groc; pelicula Ilford HP5+ 400, revelada amb Atomal 49 sense diluir. Aquesta càmera és contemporania a aquests fets.
Buscant amb Google Maps per l'entorn del camp d'extermini de Sobibor, on foren assassinades amb cambres de gas entre 175.000 i 250.000 persones, vaig trobar una nota que em va portar al mig dels tranquils i solitaris boscos que envolten completament el camp.
Com ja he comentat, a Sobibor els presoners varen poder organitzar una desesperada revolta el 14 d'octubre de 1943. Dels 700 presoners del Lager I, uns 350 varen provar de fugir tant per la porta com per les filferrades i camps de mines cap al sud del camp. Abans havien mort a 11 dels seus assassins de les SS i 2 auxiliars "trawnikis". Per desgracia molts varen morir a trets o per les mines en el mateix moment de la fugida, però els boscos, tot i que grans, tampoc oferien protecció total. En pocs dies, uns 170 dels que arribaren al bosc foren capturats i tornats a Sobibor per morir allà, o executats directament al bosc. Nomes varen sobreviure a la guerra 58 presoners.
Doncs un dels grups dels capturats i executats al bosc mateix son els d'aquesta fosa comuna marcada al bosc, a 7 km al sud de Sobibor i a uns 2 km del poblet de Zbereże. Se sap que hi ha els cadavers de 6 presoners jueus de Sobibor, així com de 2 jueus del mateix poble de Zbereże, pare i fill. Probablement els fugitius provaben de creuar el riu Bug cap a territori sovietic, ja que aquest està just després de Zbereze. Potser provaren de buscar l'ajuda dels jueus locals, que en tot cas no entenc com encara sobrevivien allà el 1943.
La seva tomba solitaria com a minim ara està marcada i algú hi porta llanties i flors...
zapomniane.org/en/miejsce/zbereze-2/
Aquesta foto forma part de tot un viatge pel centre de Polònia, enfocat especialment en els més tragics moments del Holocaust i la II Guerra Mundial, que esclafà Polonia com pocs llocs, però que alhora contrasta amb l'increible renaixement del país fins al moment actual.
Hi ha una pel·licula força acurada, anomenada Escape from Sobibor (1987). Està sencera a Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT8Bkrd6MsM
=============================================
Picture taken with my Rolleiflex Old Standard made in 1936; Carl Zeiss Tessar f3.5 75mm lens with yellow filter; Ilford HP5+ 400 film, developed in stock Atomal 49. This camera is contemporary with this events.
Searching with Google Maps around the Sobibor extermination camp, where between 175,000 and 250,000 people were murdered in gas chambers, I found a note that took me to the middle of the quiet and lonely forests that completely surround the camp.
As I have already mentioned, in Sobibor the prisoners were able to organize a desperate uprising on October 14, 1943. Of the 700 prisoners of Lager I, about 350 tried to escape both through the gate and through the barbed wire and minefields to the south of the camp. They had previously killed 11 of their SS murderers and 2 "trawniki" assistants. Unfortunately, many were shot or killed by mines at the same time as they escaped, but the forests, although large, did not offer complete protection either. Within a few days, about 170 of those who reached the forest were captured and returned to Sobibor to die there, or executed directly in the forest. Only 58 prisoners survived the war.
One of the groups of those captured and executed in the forest itself are those from this mass grave marked in the forest, 7 km south of Sobibor and about 2 km from the village of Zbereże. It is known that there are the bodies of 6 Jewish prisoners from Sobibor, as well as 2 Jews from the same village of Zbereże, father and son. The escapees were probably trying to cross the Bug River into Soviet territory, since this is just after Zbereze. Maybe they tried to seek help from the local Jews, who in any case I don't understand how they still survived there in 1943.
At least their lonely grave is now marked and someone is bringing flowers and wreaths...
zapomniane.org/en/miejsce/zbereze-2/
This photo is part of a trip through central Poland, focused especially on the most tragic moments of the Holocaust and World War II, which devastated Poland like few places, but which at the same time contrasts with the incredible rebirth of the country up to the present day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp
There is a very accurate telefilm called Escape from Sobibor (1987). It is available in its entirety on Youtube: