A temporary ID card of Sigmund Pavlovsky – an inmate in the Sobibor extermination camp. The certificate was issued on September 7, 1942, during the camp’s peak activities. Print stencil on Simple paper, ink stamps of the ‘Administration’ in Sobibor, as well as a manual stamp of the ‘secretary’. German.
Alongside a passport photo of Pavlovsky and an official ink stamp, his personal details were written: Born May 20, 1908 to Anton and Marian, a native of uhrusk village. It is also stated that the certificate was produced as a temporary ID, for the purpose of displaying additional documents related to the details written here.
Sobibor extermination camp: (Sobibor) was located in the Lublin Galilee in General gouvernement, occupied Poland. The extermination camp began in late April 1942 and continued until October 1943. Between 170,000 and 250,000 people were murdered in this camp, except for a few hundred Gypsies, all of whom were Jewish. It was one of the camps known for their harsh cruelty, camp survivors tell haunting stories of atrocities committed by Jews sentenced to immediate extermination in the gas chambers upon arrival at the camp, and horrific abuses.
Pavlovsky’s name does not appear in Yad Vashem’s database, and we have no information on what happened to him, and whether he survived the Holocaust..
Size: 21×10 cm. Folding marks.
