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Survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution
The Sobibór Survivor Who Helped Hunt Down Nazis: Stanisław Szmajzner
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At just 15 years old, Stanisław Szmajzner was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp, where he was forced to work for SS officers as a goldsmith while witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust.
In October 1943, he joined the famous Sobibór uprising led by Alexander Pechersky and escaped the camp during the chaos of the revolt. After the war, Szmajzner settled in Brazil, where he later helped identify former Nazi criminals, including Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner.
This story follows one of the survivors of Sobibór who escaped Nazi terror and later helped expose those responsible for it.