BERLIN — Arkady Waispapir, the last known survivor of the Nazis’ Sobibor death camp, has died in Ukraine. Born in southern Ukraine in 1921, Waispapir was captured by the Germans while serving in the Soviet Army and eventually shipped to the Nazis’ Sobibor camp in occupied Poland in 1943 because he was Jewish. In October 1943, prisoners organized an uprising against the guards and succeeded in killing nearly a dozen. Following the uprising, the Nazi guards shot the remaining prisoners and razed the camp. Between March 1942 and October 1943, about 167,000 people were killed in Sobibor, almost entirely Jews, according to the U.S.

Source: National Post January 29, 2018 14:09 UTC