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Between 1942–1943, a Nazi death camp operated in the vicinity of the train station in Sobibór. Jews from many countries were brought here and put to death. In October 1943, there was an armed uprising of the prisoners and approximately 300 of them managed to escape. The Germans immediately closed the camp, erasing the evidence of the deaths of nearly 250 thousand people.

Since 1993, a museum has been in operation in the area of the former camp – a branch of the State Museum at Majdanek in Lublin, which cooperates with social organisations in Poland, the Netherlands and Germany. Since 2003, an Avenue of Remembrance has been under construction – along the road leading to the mausoleum that houses the ashes of those murdered in the camp stones with the names or places of origin of the victims have been laid out.