In March 1942 the Sobibor death camp was built. Many Jews were killed in Sobibor while it was still in service. The escape was only a year later when a group was founded in the underground and a plan was set up. 300 escaped, but how many lived? The Sobibor death camp was one of the first and one of the best. When it began it was slightly lacking but it picked up. Located near the the Sobibor village/eastern part of the Lublin district in Poland, the second death camp to be constructed as part of the Aktion Reinhard program was built. Before the escape in 1943, there was a smaller escape, in which 2 or 3 Jewish individuals escaped from an experimental gassing. They ran to Wlodawa and informed the Hassidic rabbi there. They were eventually
