Semyon Rosenfeld, the last living survivor of an uprising at the infamous Nazi extermination camp Sobibor, has died aged 96 at a hospital in Israel.
Rosenfeld was born in Ukraine in 1922, and joined the Red Army to fight Nazi Germany during World War II. Rosenfeld was captured by Nazi soldiers in 1941, and spent time in a labor camp in Minsk before being sent to the Sobibor death camp in Poland in 1943.
It was there that Rosenfeld, alongside hundreds of other prisoners, staged an uprising on Oct. 14th, 1943. Prisoners killed 11 SS officers before the revolt was discovered. Most …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
