Sobibór
Sobibor - is a village located 4 km from our SANVIT hotel facility.
Among the sights worth mentioning is a brick manor house that still housed a school not long ago. At a distance of 4 km to the west of the village, in the middle of the forest, there is Sobibor Railway Station. It houses the active Sobibor freight railroad station (timber reloading). A German SS-Sonderkommando Sobibo extermination camp operated at the station from 1942 to 1943. At least a quarter of a million Jews and about a thousand Poles were murdered there. Several hundred inmates on October 14, 1943 broke out into an uprising against the Nazi crew and managed to escape. As a result, the camp was liquidated. Today, the site's past is recalled by a large mound that can be walked around. There is also a monument, a memorial avenue with stones lined along it and a row of pine trees. A museum operates near the Sobibór train station. Sobibor Landscape Park Sobibór is located in the buffer zone of the Sobiborski Landscape Park. Characteristic features of this area are vast plains covered with forests, among which there are mid-forest lakes and peat bogs. The most valuable fragments are protected in the form of nature reserves, such as the "Three Lakes" reserve with Lake Plotycze or the "Lake Brudzieniec" reserve, where one can find numerous traces of the presence of beavers. Meanwhile, the "Turtle Mud" reserve deserves special attention due to the presence there of a protected species of pond turtle. On the territory of Sobibor Landscape Park there are hiking trails, bicycle paths, viewpoints and observation points. Orthodox cemetery in Sobibor The historic cemetery is located on the northeastern edge of the village, in the forest about 300 meters from the road Włodawa - Wola Uhruska. It has a rectangular shape with an area of about 5500 m2. The area of the cemetery is surrounded by a fence made of concrete posts and barbed wire. The cemetery was established in the first half of the 19th century. The vast majority of graves are from the first half of the 20th century. They are concrete crosses with inscriptions, occasional sandstone monuments are found. The most interesting of these, made of pink sandstone, belongs to Fedor Ivanov Prylepa, a participant in the Russo-Japanese War, who died in 1908. A distinctive feature of the site is the numerous earthen graves with very tall 4-5 meter high wooden crosses, many of which are now overturned and destroyed. |