Sobibor - The Road to Heaven 'Himmelfahrtstrasse' or 'the tube' leading to Lager III

Once the victims had been stripped of everything they were driven along the 'Road to Heaven' which lead directly to the gas chambers. During operation of the extermination camp the path would have been lined with barbed wire and camouflaged to prevent those outside from seeing what was happening.

The barb wire and camouflage was removed along time ago and replaced by a neat and well manicured 'Lane of Remembrance' lined with stones inscribed with the names of villages and towns where victims came from (similar to those towns displayed at Belzec and Treblinka). At the far end of the path is a small monument remembering those that were murdered at Sobibor.

The Lane of Remembrance

The Lane of Remembrance

The Lane of Remembrance. The proposed position of the 'Road to Heaven'.

The Lane of Remembrance

The monument at the end of the Lane
of Remembrance that contains an
inscription.

The plaque at the end of the Road to Heaven.

The road to heaven is not straight so that people coming from behind could not see what was happening to the people in front.





I have noted from my reading on the Sobibor extermination camp that some people feel that the position of what now represents the path of the Road to Heaven should be further to the right.

Although it is now suggested that the remains of the gas chamber have been found near the Polish memorial, I took a series of pictures in an ark from left to right at the end of the Road to Heaven near the memorial. Within this series of photos, the area of woodland in front of the Road to Heaven includes the area where Lager III is thought to have been located which contained the gas chambers. No one will ever know the pain and torture people went through on their way to certain death.



The area of Lager III No. 1

The area of Lager III No. 2

The area of Lager III No. 3

The area of Lager III No. 4

The area of Lager III No. 5

The area of Lager III No. 6.
The monument can be seen in the distance

The area of Lager III No. 7

The area of Lager III No. 8

I took the same series of photographs back in January 2016 with my Niece standing near the small monument at the end of the Lane of Remembrance as it is represented today.

The last photograph of the series panned round further to the right and shows the distance to the Polish monument where it is suspected the gas chambers were located



The view of the Polish Monument from the end of the Lane
of Remembrance.