Last known Sobibor death camp survivor dies in Ukraine
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Arkady Waispapir, the last known survivor of the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, has died in Ukraine. He was 96.
The Berlin-based Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe said Monday that Waispapir died Jan. 11 in Kiev.
Born in southern Ukraine in 1921, Waispapir was captured by the Germans while serving in the Soviet Army and eventually shipped to the Nazis' Sobibor camp in occupied Poland in 1943 because he was Jewish.
He was one of a few inmates spared immediate death in Sobibor's gas chambers, and instead ordered to a work detail.
In October 1943, prisoners organized an uprising against the guards and succeeded in killing nearly a dozen.
