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(Thursday, October 14, 1943, 4:00 p.m. Central European Time; during The Holocaust and World War II) — Members of the underground, led by Polish-Jewish prisoner Leon Feldhendler and Soviet-Jewish POW Alexander Pechersky, launched the Sobibór uprising today, covertly killing eleven SS officers and a number of guards at the Sobibór extermination camp in German-occupied Poland.

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The plan for the revolt involved two phases. In the first phase, teams of prisoners were to discreetly assassinate each of the SS officers. In the second phase, all 600 prisoners would assemble for evening roll call and walk to freedom out the front gate.

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However, the plan was disrupted after only eleven SS men had been killed. The prisoners had to escape by climbing over barbed wire fences and running through a minefield under heavy machine gun fire.

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About 300 prisoners made it out of the camp, of whom roughly 60 survived the war.

After the revolt, the Nazis demolished most of the camp in order to hide their crimes from the advancing Red Army.