Sobibór extermination camp
During the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II Dorohucza was the location of a forced labor camp of the Lublin Reservation complex. According to historian Jules Schelvis, at least 700 Dutch Jews were imprisoned there building latifundia of Generalplan Ost for the German settlers. They were transferred to Dorohucza directly upon arrival in Sobibór extermination camp. The Dorohucza camp was located just east of the village, from the Trawniki concentration camp, used as training base for the Trawniki men from "Reichskommissariat Ukraine". The camp was liquidated at the start of Aktion Erntefest of 3 November 1943.