Sobibor Tunnel Found

"WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Polish and Israeli archaeologists discovered traces of an underground tunnel at the site of the former death camp in Sobibor.
The tunnel, whose discovery was announced on Wednesday, ran from a barracks to outside the camp fence. It may have been dug by the prisoners of the Sonderkommando who worked in the camp burning the corpses of murdered Jews.
“The Germans found the tunnel and therefore shot and then burned the entire crew of the Sonderkommando,” Mazurek told the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper.The archeology work at Sobibor is directed by Wojciech Mazurek of Chelm, Poland, and Yoram Haimi of Israel.
Though the tunnel would have helped the prisoners to escape, Mazurek does not believe it was used."
http://www.timesofisrael.com/underground-tunnel-discovered-at-sobibor/?

 

Interesting find. Here is a more detailed article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10104134/Escape-tunnel-discovered-at-Nazi-death-camp-Sobibor.html

 

Thanks for mentionning this, I'm surprised some traces still exist after so many years.

 

Thanks for the extra info George.

 

It's amazing how scars on the earth still appear. I recall some photos taken by a survey aircraft, and they wondered what the aircraft shadows were in a pasture. It was where Horsa gliders burned during Market Garden many, many years before.

 

I am surprised by your comment because yesterday I just saw the movie "Escape from Sobibor". In this movie they explain how more than 300 prisonners of the Sobibor death camp escaped.

My question is: Is the movie "Escape from Sobibor" true to the reality?