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The Sobibór Museum or the Museum of the Former Sobibór Nazi Death Camp ((ポーランド語:Muzeum Byłego Hitlerowskiego Obozu Zagłady w Sobiborze)), is a Polish state-owned museum devoted to remembering the atrocities committed at the former Sobibor extermination camp located on the outskirts of Sobibór near Lublin. The Nazi German death camp was set up in occupied Poland during World War II, as part of the Jewish extermination program known as the Operation Reinhard, which marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust in Poland. The camp was run by the ''SS Sonderkommando Sobibor'' headed by Franz Stangl. The number of Jews from Poland and elsewhere who were gassed and cremated there between April 1942 and October 14, 1943 is estimated at 250,000; possibly more, including those who came from other Reich-occupied countries. Since May 1, 2012 the Sobibór Museum has been a branch of the Majdanek State Museum,〔 dedicated to the history and commemoration of the Holocaust camps and subcamps of ''KL Lublin''. Originally, the museum served as an out-of-town division of the district museum in Włodawa nearby founded in 1981. It has been temporarily closed to the public from April 2011 due to lack of financial means. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage reopened the Museum with additional funding after its administrative reorganisation. ==Museum history== Little was known about the camp before the Sobibor trial in Hagen, Germany, and the parallel ''Hiwi'' trials in Krasnodar in the former USSR,〔 inspired by the investigative work of Simon Wiesenthal and the highly publicized snatching of Eichmann by Mossad. Most Holocaust survivors had left Poland long before these events, and the camp was largely forgotten.〔Richard C. Lukas, ( ''Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust'' ) University Press of Kentucky 1989 - 201 pages. Page 13; also in Richard C. Lukas, ''The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944'', University Press of Kentucky 1986 - 300 pages.〕〔Michael C. Steinlauf. "(Poland )". In: David S. Wyman, Charles H. Rosenzveig. ''The World Reacts to the Holocaust''. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.〕 The first monument to Sobibór victims was erected on the historic site in 1965. The Włodawa Museum, which was responsible for the monument, established a separate Sobibór branch on October 14, 1993, on the 50th anniversary of the armed uprising of Jewish prisoners there, some of whom successfully escaped in 1943 (see ''Escape from Sobibor'', which aired on CBS in 1987), thus prompting the camp's premature closure.〔 The small-size museum is scheduled to be replaced with a modern visitor centre based on the results of an international design competition closed at the end of 2013 and sponsored by the Polish-German Foundation ''Pojednanie''. On 24 June 2014 the State Secretary from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage presented the winning design at a ceremony in Warsaw, in the presence of the King of the Netherlands Willem Alexander and his wife Queen Máxima, the partners in the project along with Israel, Poland and Slovakia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sobibór Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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