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Question:I need help on my homework assignment.
I need to know if there were any revolts in the concentration camps.

If so.
Could you guys send me links with information?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I need help on my homework assignment.
I need to know if there were any revolts in the concentration camps.

If so.
Could you guys send me links with information?

Here are some links that will give you information on three uprisings/revolts by prisoners in Nazi conncentration camps. You will have to read through the information to find what you need, but I hope you find it helpful. Best of luck with your homework!

there was at least one I think it was in kerblinka


I am sure that is spelled wrong.

Check the link below for some good info.

Google is your friend, just input "revolts in Nazi concentration camps" as your search string, and it'll give you all sorts of info that's useful to your research.

Oh, and Old Goat, it was Treblinka, not Kerblinka.

There are 2 different sites listed below.

Sobibor (Poland)
Sobibor was established March 1942.

In July 1943, Himmler, who had visited the camp in February, ordered that it be converted into a concentration camp. This edict effectively served a death notice on the Jewish workers who then organized a resistance movement and worked out an escape plan. It was led by Leon Feldhendler.

He was subsequently assisted by Alexander Pechersky, a Jewish officer in a transport of Red Army POWs which arrived in the camp in September 1943. The uprising was launched on October 14, 1943. In the fighting, 11 SS men and a number of Ukrainian guards were killed. Three hundred Jews escaped, but dozens were killed in the mine field around the camp and dozens more were hunted down over subsequent days. Of the Jews who broke out, 50 survived to the end of the war. The camp was liquidated in October 1943 and the site disguised as a farm.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...

Jewish Resistance in Ghettos and Camps
Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements developed in about 100 Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou...