Sobibor Construction work has begun in March 2017

I have just noted that work has finally began on the new museum a the former site of the Sobibor Extermination camp ( March 2017). I am glad that I have visited the former site at Sobibor before the work begins in case the authorities create another concrete megastructure as they did at Belzec.  When you visit Belzec you are amazed by the size of the concrete structure rather than thinking about what used to be there, an extermination camp. When I visited Sobibor last year, in its current form, I could feel the isolation of the location of the camp and the desolation from where the Nazis had tried to erase their crimes. I have looked at the plans of what the authorities are building at the former extermination camp, and I feel that this may be spoilt, as they have done ay Belzec and Treblinka 2. I can understand the need for memorials to commemorate all those that died in these camps, however the size of the memorials have changed the character of these sites. I feel this will now happen in Sobibor.


The red sculpture of a woman holding
a child at Sobibor



The memorial structure a Belzec




The memorial at Treblinka 2

As I mentioned in the blog, at Sobibor I found a sculpture of a woman holding a child. This was as striking a sculpture as any of the larger monuments I saw at any of the camps.  By building these large memorial structures I feel that something has been lost from these camps, and Sobibor is heading that way, its a shame.