Synopsis
A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor
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Review
“A sensitive, thoughtful, and well-researched account of the ‘biggest prisoner escape of World War II.’” —Samuel Gold, Jewish Chicago
“A journalistic account in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —Choice
“The authoritative version of the breakout from the Nazi experimentation camp at Sobibor. . . . Gives us a very good idea of how the will to survive can lead quite ordinary people to surmount the most extraordinary obstacles.” —The Jerusalem Post
“This moving and angry book deserves to be read.” —The Washington Post
“A unique, unforgettable, deeply moving and effective account of a death camp.” —Detroit Jewish News
From the Back Cover
Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance - in this case successful - by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor also was the scene of the war's biggest prisoner escape. Richard Rashke's interviews with eighteen of those who survived provide the foundation for this volume. He also draws on books, articles, and diaries to make vivid the camp, the uprising, and the escape. In the afterword to this reprint, Rashke relates how the Polish government in October 1993 observed the fiftieth anniversary of the escape and how it has beautified the site since a film based on his book appeared on Polish television.
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