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ID: 6005528
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6005528
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sobibór (inhabited place)  Sobibór (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 023 39 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 23.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Small village near the present-day eastern border of Poland, notorious as the location of the Sobibór extermination camp, built by the Nazis in March of 1942. The Sobibór camp was constructed as part of Operation Reinhard, the program meant to exterminate the Jews of Poland. At least 167,000 people were killed at Sobibór.

Names:
Sobibór (preferred,C,V)
Sobibor (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Poland (nation)  ........  Poland (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lublin Voivodeship (voivodeship)  ............  Lublin Voivodeship (voivodeship) (P)
Hierarchy of Sobibór (inhabited place)  ................  Sobibór (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
concentration camp site (H)  ............  1942-1943

Sources and Contributors:
Sobibór..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  USBGN: Poland (1955) 984
Sobibor..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 356
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 356
..................  USBGN: Poland (1955) 984
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 2 June 2008
..........  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [online] (2008-) accessed 2 June 2008

 

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