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TIL about Toivi Blatt and the 1943 Jewish uprising at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, one of three camps built for Operation Reinhardt. During the armed revolt by the Jewish prisoners, the Nazis were overpowered allowing several hundred to escape to freedom. The camp was never opened again.

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