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Escape from Sobibor

On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. In this fully updated edition Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with eighteen survivors. -- From the back cover.

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  • "On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. In this fully updated edition Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with eighteen survivors. -- From the back cover."@en
  • "A story reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor."
  • "It was the scene of the biggest prison escape of World War II, yet hardly anyone has heard of Sobibor, one of three Nazi death camps in eastern Poland, where six hundred Jews revolted against their guards and broke through the walls. Three hundred of them made it to the woods of Sobibor, the forest of the owls. Because the Nazis destroyed all the physical evidence and all but three documents about the camp, even historians of the Holocaust scarcely mention Sobibor. But the Nazis did not destroy all the evidence. More than thirty survivors are still alive -- including the Red Army officer-prisoner who led the revolt -- and Richard Rashke has sought them out. From their diaries, notes, testimony at war crimes trials, and, above all, from their vivid memories, he has re-created an important piece of neglected history. In addition to recounting the compelling story of the uprising and the escape, Rashke gives us an unforgettable picture of the day-to-day existence in a Nazi death camp where a quarter of a million Jews were killed. - Jacket flap."
  • "Revised and Updated “Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . 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."
  • "Revised and Updated "Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . 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 thi."@en

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  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Erlebnisbericht"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Flucht aus Sobibor"
  • "Ontsnapping uit Sobibor"
  • "Les évadés de Sodbor [i.e. Sobibor]"
  • "Les Évadés de Sobidor"
  • "Flugten fra Sobibor"
  • "Flugten fra Sobibor"@da
  • "Escape from Sobibor"@en
  • "Escape from Sobibor"
  • "Escape from Sobibór"
  • "Les évadés de Sobibor"
  • "Escape from Sobibor : with a new afterword"
  • "Escapar de Sobibor"@es
  • "Escapar de Sobibor"
  • "Escape from Sobibor Revised and Updated Edition"
  • "Escape from Sobibor : [a true story of triumph and survival]"
  • "Flucht aus Sobibor [Roman]"
  • "Escape from Sobidor"
  • "Flugten fra Sobibór"@da

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