DW: Last known survivor of Sobibor death camp dies, aged 96
Arkady Waispapir, who survived the notorious Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, has died in Ukraine, aged 96. More than 160,000 people are thought to have died in the camp from 1942 to 1943.
Waispapir died on January 11 in Kyiv, the Berlin-based Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe announced on Monday.
Born in southern Ukraine in 1921, Waispapir was taken prisoner by the Germans while serving in the Soviet Red Army. When it was discovered that he was Jewish, he was taken to the Sobibor concentration camp in occupied Poland in 1943.
Unlike most prisoners, he was spared from immediate death in the camp's gas chambers and given a job in maintenance.
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