Escape from Sobibor

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781453286258

<DIV><DIV><B>This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is &ldquo;a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget&rdquo; (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> 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.</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV><DIV>In this edition of <I>Escape from Sobibor</I>, 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.&#160;A story of unimaginable cruelty.&#160;A story of courage and a fierce desire to live and to tell the world what truly went on behind those barbed wire fences. &#160;&#160;</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV></DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV>