The most well-known event in the Sobibor concentration camp was the revolt. In the beginning, a member of the Judenrat, Leon Feldhendler, was the head of the rebell but he was later replaced by lieutenant Aleksander “Sasha” Peczerski. Peczerski was a member of the Red Army who was sent to the camp during one of the last deportations (Escape2Poland, 2010). During this revolt, prisoners would try to lure the Germans and Ukrainians into places where they would be murdered. Other prisoners would break into the Ukrainian guards’ rooms and steal their weapons and ammunition (Blatt, 2015). The first stage of the revolt was successful because the partisans killed 11 SS guards including the director of the camp, Untersturmfuehrer Niemann. These partisans
