An edition of Escape from Sobibor (1982)

Escape from Sobibor

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An edition of Escape from Sobibor (1982)

Escape from Sobibor

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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.

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Escape from Sobibor
1995, University of Illinois Press
in English
Cover of: Escape from Sobibor
Escape from Sobibor
April 1987, Avon Books (Mm)
Cover of: Escape from Sobibor
Escape from Sobibor: the heroic story of the Jews who escaped from a Nazi death camp
1982, Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover in English

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First Sentence

"STRETCHING to look taller than he was, the boy stood next to the men in the open field surrounded by a barbed-wire fence, seven feet high."

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Library of Congress
D805.P7 R33 1987

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7433661M
Internet Archive
escapefromsobibo0000rash_g6s9
ISBN 10
0380753944
ISBN 13
9780380753949
LCCN
86092088
OCLC/WorldCat
15558917
Library Thing
433174
Goodreads
3494645

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