Prisoners at Sobibor death camp staged a mass revolt on October 14, 1943, killing 11 SS guards and escaping — led by Soviet-Jewish prisoner Alexander Pechersky
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Pechersky, a Soviet officer captured in 1941, organized the revolt in just weeks. About 300 prisoners escaped; around 60 survived the war. Following the revolt, Heinrich Himmler ordered Sobibor completely demolished and planted over with trees to hide its existence.