[Der Spiegel-Germany] Stephane Alonso - During World War II, deep in the forests of Poland's eastern border area, the German extermination camp Sobibor was where 170,000 Jews, more than 34,000 of them Dutch, were systematically murdered. The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Israel recently agreed on a major "renovation" aimed at opening up the former camp to the outside world. Unlike at Auschwitz, there is nothing to see at Sobibor. The Germans dismantled the camp in 1943 after an uprising in which 12 SS officers were killed and several hundred Jews managed to escape. Fifty of them survived the war.
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