The German government has announced that it intends to donate €1 million to build a museum that will commemorate the 170,000 Jews who were executed by the Nazis in the Sobibor concentration and extermination camp in eastern Poland between 1942 and 1943.
Sobibor was one of only three camps where prisoners revolted against the guards. The funds will first be transferred to the Auschwitz-Birkenau International Foundation and from there will be transferred to the new museum, where the exhibition is supposed to be wound up within two years. In recent years, Israeli archaeologists have conducted excavations on the grounds of the camp and found many items belonging to Jewish prisoners who were imprisoned there. However, in addition to a few small signs erected there, no monument was erected in the area.