New
“Memorial Center” Planned for the
Sobibór “Death Camp”
By
Thomas Kues
On 17 August 2010 the Zionist news site
YNet published the following item:
“Israel will continue to support efforts
to set up a memorial center at Sobibor,
according to an agreement reached by the
director general of the Ministry of
Information and Diaspora Affairs Ronen
Plot and the Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Directorate Avner Shalev, with Dr. Andzrej
Konrat, who is in charge of Holocaust
remembrance in Poland.
The agreement is in keeping with the
statement of intentions agreed upon in
2008 by Israel, Poland, Slovakia and the
Netherlands.
Almost nothing remained of the Sobibor
Nazi death camp in Poland at the end of
the war. The creation of a memorial center
is the result of cooperative research by
Poland’s council for the memory of war
victims, headed by Minister Konrat, and
Israel’s Ministry of Information and
Diaspora Affairs and Foreign Ministry,
directed by Yad Vashem researchers and
assisted by Slovakia and the Netherlands.
For this purpose, and international
committee of experts was established, and
digs were carried out at the site to
determine the precise location of the gas
chambers.
