Tributes paid to Semyon Rosenfeld, final surviving member of the Sobibor death camp revolt

“He joined the Red Army, was taken captive by the Nazis, but managed to escape the death camp and continue to fight the Nazis.

“May his memory be blessed.”

Mr Rosenfeld once said that before the war there was no antisemitism where he lived, the Times of Israel reported, but that he was captured by the Germans in 1941 and sent first to a labour camp in Minsk, and subsequently to the Sobibor camp.

Around 250,000 Jews and non-Jews were murdered at the site, which is today situated in eastern Poland.

A revolt of prisoners in October 1943 succeeded in killing 11 Nazi camp officers before other offices opened fire. Many of those who took part in the uprising were either killed or captured in the days that followed, but Mr Rosenfeld was among a small group of survivors who hit in the woods until the spring of 1944.