The darkest darkness

18/10/2023

SOBIBOR - After Auschwitz, Sobibor is the largest Dutch mass grave with more than 34,000 Dutch victims. Starting in 1942, more than 170,000 Jews were gassed here in a year and a half immediately upon arrival. Yet few people know about this death camp. After a successful prisoner uprising in October 1943, the Nazis closed Sobibor, erasing as many traces as possible.

The silence at the site of the camp comes to an end in 2014. Investigative journalist Rosanne Kropman is there when archaeologists excavate the foundations of the eight gas chambers. Scoop by scoop, the contours of the camp come to the surface. From that moment on, Kropman sets out to find traces of the camp. She meets the last survivors of the uprising and their families, tells stories of the perpetrators and sees the difficult handling in Poland of Holocaust heritage. Darkest Dark sheds new light on the mystery that is Sobibor to this day.

Supported

€6,000 allocated on 24/05/2023

ID:

FPD/2023/2082

Themes

Publication

BOOK (in Dutch)

Title: Het donkerste donker
Subtitle: Een geschiedenis van Sobibor
Author: Rosanne Kropman
Publisher: Nieuw Amsterdam
Publication date: 04/10/2023
EAN: 9789046826881
Pages: 208

ONLINE/PRINT

Hoe alleen de mens in staat is tot de kille berekening van Sobibor, Het Parool, 16/10/2023.
Boek van Nederlandse journalist over kamp Sobibor: belangrijke boodschap dat wij als mensen hiertoe in staat zijn, De Limburger, 13/10/2023.
Het leek onmogelijk, toch was er in Kamp Sobibor een opstand. Rosanne Kropman schreef er een boek over, Trouw, 12/10/2023.
Boek over vernietiginskamp Sobibor: "Dat de meeste mensen deugen gaat er bij mij niet in", De Telegraaf, 12/10/2023.
Mysterieuze kapitein die opstand Sobibor plande was Nederlander Jozeph Jacobs, RTL Nieuws, 12/10/2023.

Team members

Rosanne Kropman

Rosanne Kropman is a Dutch investigative journalist.

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