Escape from SobiborOpen Road Media, 2012 M10 23 - 416 pages This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is “a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget” (San Francisco Chronicle). On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war. In this edition of Escape from Sobibor, fully updated in 2012, Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with eighteen of the survivors. It vividly describes the biggest prisoner escape of World War II. A story of unimaginable cruelty. A story of courage and a fierce desire to live and to tell the world what truly went on behind those barbed wire fences. |
Contents
Chapter 7 | |
Chapter 8 | |
Chapter 9 | |
Chapter 19 | |
Chapter 20 | |
Chapter 29 | |
Chapter 30 | |
The Forest | |
Chapter 32 | |
A Personal Epilogue | |
Chapter 38 | |
Chapter 11 | |
Chapter 13 | |
Chapter 15 | |
Chapter 16 | |
Chapter 17 | |
The Escape | |
Chapter 40 | |
Chapter 43 | |
Image Gallery Afterword | |
Acknowledgments Sources Notes | |
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