Similar to Belzec extermination camp there is nothing remaining from the original camp, only the memorials placed by authorities. The Nazis destroyed plans, documents and stripped the buildings of the former extermination camp down to their foundations, even carrying the rubble away. They levelled structures, planted forests and established farms. It was clear by the time I had walked through the former areas of Lager I and II that the site of the extermination camp had more or less been raised to the ground by the Germans in 1943. The farms set up by the Germans have long gone and the forest cleared.
The first and most striking feature as you pull up at the entrance of the former area of the Sobibor Extermination Camp is the buffer at the end of the rail rack and the rail track where trains used to stop at the ramp to allow victims to unload. This was a sinister feature seen in the film 'Escape from Sobibor'.
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| The buffer at the end of the railway track outside Sobibor |
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| The railway buffer and railway track and with the ramp in the distance. |
I have included some pictures taken of and near the railway buffer during the visit it January.
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| The railway buffer at Sobibor taken from the original railway spur, Jan 2016 |
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| The ramp taken from the railway buffer Jan 2016 |
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| The railway buffer and spur at Sobibor taken from the ramp, Jan 2016 |
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| The ramp at Sobibor, Jan 2016 |
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