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 … 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.
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Excellent story of survival in the face of impossible odds in a Nazi death camp.
Read the original printed in 2012 and I was riveted from the beginning until the last sentence. Very well written, intense and inspirational. Inspirational that some lived through the war and looked forward to their lives. Too often,many want to brush the past under the rug, but these crimes MUST never be brushed away nor forgotten.
This is a fantastic book. It manages to tell the facts while doing so in a manner that feels more like a novel than a history book. The author spends a lot of time telling the backstory and history leading up to the camp and what happened to everyone after the revolt. It is comprehensive and it does a good job at telling their story. Definitely …
It’s a book about the Holocaust, so you know what you’re getting into. However, it’s also a book about the largest prisoner escape from any Nazi camp, so it does have a hopeful message. Desperately needed today, especially when people are saying the Holocaust didn’t happen. An important read that’s well worth your time.
I have read many books on the Holocaust over many years. I am a student of WWII and thus am captivated by the events of how the Nazi’s managed to empower SS to commit so many atrocities. This is the most descriptive and complete story of so many lives involved in the largest Jewish prisoner escape planned and executed.
Not all those who escaped …
This book, like so many personalized stories from the Holocaust is difficult to comprehend. Man’s inhumanity to his fellow man remains a tragedy even today.
An informative read about the horrors of a little known concentration camp.
This is a story every high school student should read.
It’s sad that most people aren’t aware of the sad history and the inspirational people that survived such evil.
This story affected me more than most WWII books. Haunting.
An eye-opening story of Sobibor, a Nazi death camp.
The author really did his research thoroughly and makes us really see what happened. The characters come alive and I like the fact they never gave up on escaping Sobibor. They worked together very well and their escape plan was top notch. Even though this is a tragic subject and the people involved were scarred for life, the message I get from the …
Great Book!
Reveals the bravery of the Jewish people during WWII. A haunting documentary.
Having read numbers of books on the Holocaust, I found the subject of the children who survived compelling. The author, Richard Rashke, did his due diligence in tracking down and recording the stories of these children and how it impacted their lives.
I read parts of this book twice. This book communicates the depths to which the Nazis had sunk very well. It was hard to read, but I learned a lot about what really happened during WW II.
This is an outstanding story about the perseverance of prisoners in a concentration camp in WWII. The story had good prisoner descriptions, security personnel descriptions, and the conflicts that arose between them. Carrying out the preparations for an escape was very well described. The conditions the prisoners had to endure were atrocious. …
A very illuminating account of this piece of the halocaust. The response of the world, including the United States, is disheartening.