It was the second uprising in an extermination camp, partly successful, by Jewish prisoners against the SS forces, following the revolt in Treblinka.

To cover up the crimes committed at the site, they established an inconspicuous farm in its place and planted a pine forest over the remnants of the camp.

As a result, the prisoners formed a resistance group of ten to twelve inmates led by Leon Felhendler.

For this, he planned to secretly kill the SS officers and then execute a mass breakout of all prisoners from the camp.

The handguns of the murdered SS officers were supposed to be handed over to the Soviet prisoners experienced in operating weapons.

Soviet soldiers in SS uniforms were supposed to accompany the marching captives as a disguise and command them in German.

If the route through the main gate was not feasible, the prisoners were instructed to detonate the mines by throwing stones to create an alternative escape path.

In this case, the Soviet POWs were to run to open the wire fences in groups and defend against the remaining SS officers and guards using the weapons they had captured.

The "underground committee" hoped that if the Soviet soldiers, dressed in SS uniforms, gave orders in German to the marching camp prisoners, the Trawniki guards would not suspect anything.

Johann Niemann, the deputy camp commander, was the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day and the first person the rebels planned to assassinate.

Niemann was killed in the tailor’s shed, struck twice in the head with a hatchet by Alexander Shubayev while trying on a leather coat.

Josef Wolf, an SS squad commander, was killed by a hatchet blow while he was trying on a leather coat in the sorting shed.

Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner was part of a group of four prisoners who killed the camp's chief Kapo.

This threatened the secrecy of the current phase of the rebellion and endangered the escape if the murdered man was discovered.

Therefore, Pechersky decided to signal the evening command ten minutes earlier, causing unrest among the prisoners.

60 prisoners from Camp Number 4 were arrested by the guards on their way to the command area due to the gunfire, and were detained and shot.

Leon Felhendler and Alexander Pechersky managed to urge the prisoners to escape while they still could in order to survive and tell the world about the extermination of the Jews in the camp.

[16][17][better source needed] After World War II, 47 prisoners from the Sobibor extermination camp survived, including 8 women.

On 3 June 2019, Simjon Rosenfeld, one of the last survivors involved in the Sobibor uprising, died at the age of 96 at Kaplan Hospital and was buried in the cemetery in Bnei Aish.

In the weekly Jüdische Allgemeine, historian and journalist Gabriela Leser criticized the fact that the Federal Republic of Germany had still not contributed funds to cover the costs and redesign of the Holocaust victims' memorial sites.

"[19] German State Minister Cornelia Pieper, responsible for relations with Poland, explained that a few days earlier, Polish Secretary of State Waldemar Bartoszewski had clarified to the German ambassador in Poland "that Germany is not yet expected to support Sobibor at this time, he also noted that we are still prepared to support this project.

"[20] The Jewish Museum in Moscow commemorates the Sobibor death camp and the rebellion with an event in which Soviet soldier POWs participated and were murdered.