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The Silence of Sobibor

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Ep 7 From extermination to remembrance

January 26, 2026 · 30 min

The most remarkable thing we encountered during the research for this podcast is a stack of unknown photos from Sobibor. They are unique; they've never been seen in the West before. They were pasted into a photo album by a lieutenant…
Ep 6 The puzzle from the past

January 26, 2026 · 40 min

We now know what it was like to enter the Sobibor extermination camp, even though the Germans tried to keep its existence secret at the time. Prisoners revolted, they escaped and told the world what happened there. Only, the people who…
Ep 5 Pioneers for justice

January 26, 2026 · 40 min

A Dutch newspaper in 1950, page twelve in a three-line report. “Erich Bauer, a 50-year-old former SS officer, has been sentenced to death by a West Berlin court. He is accused of gassing hundreds of thousands of Jews.” In the report, the…
Ep 4 Fear is contageous

January 26, 2026 · 37 min

“You lived in Sobibor in constant fear. Every moment could be your last.” This is a statement from Selma Wijnberg about the time she spent as a forced laborer in Sobibor. What did that fear do to the rest of her life? How do you prevent…
Ep 3 The the doors opened

January 26, 2026 · 44 min

How must it feel when you watch television and see the world briefly pause for the death of Selma Wijnberg, and the newsreader says: "The last Dutch survivor of Sobibor has passed away." And you know Selma, because you were in Sobibor just…

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Ep 2 Stories from the soil

January 26, 2026 · 40 min

You can form an idea of what Auschwitz looked like just by walking around it, as the iconic gatehouse with its fencing is still there. In Sobibor, almost the entire camp was razed to the ground. Sobibor was a secret camp where no photos…
Ep 1 A guilty place

January 26, 2026 · 37 min

Sobibor, an extermination camp from the war, in the far east of Eastern Poland, at the tripoint with Belarus and Ukraine. On quiet days, you can hear the war in the distance. If ten people were murdered on your local football pitch, you…

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About the show

Listen to the story of Sobibor. The extermination camp where more than 34,000 Dutch Jews were killed during the Second World War, yet today, hardly anyone knows the place. While Auschwitz grew to become a symbol of the war after 1945, Sobibor—as a site of guilt—fell into oblivion. During the production of this podcast, the creators gained access to a Russian archive that had remained closed until now. In that archive, they discovered unknown photographs of Sobibor that give the history of the camp a new turn. This series broadens and deepens our knowledge of Sobibor. This series was produced by Audiodroom Podcast Productions in collaboration with the Sobibor Foundation the Netherlands (Stichting Sobibor).