A Promise at Sobib???r is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobib???r in occupied Poland. Sobib???r was not a transit camp or work camp: its sole purpose was efficient mass murder. On October 14, 1943, approximately half of the 650 or so prisoners still alive at Sobib???r undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS ...
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A Promise at Sobib???r is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobib???r in occupied Poland. Sobib???r was not a transit camp or work camp: its sole purpose was efficient mass murder. On October 14, 1943, approximately half of the 650 or so prisoners still alive at Sobib???r undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS officers and fleeing through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forests, farms, and towns. Only about forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war. Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz, now an American citizen, tells his eyewitness story here in the real-time perspective of his own boyhood, from his childhood before the war and his internment in the brutal Izbica ghetto to his harrowing six months at Sobib???r--including his involvement in the revolt and desperate mass escape--and his rescue by courageous Polish farmers. He also recounts the challenges of life following the war as a teenaged displaced person, and his eventual efforts as a witness to the truth of the Holocaust. In 1943 the heroic leaders of the revolt at Sobib???r, Sasha Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler, implored fellow prisoners to promise that anyone who survived would tell the story of Sobib???r: not just of the horrific atrocities committed there, but of the courage and humanity of those who fought back. Bialowitz has kept that promise.
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New. New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book! ( z1s87C ) Some very minor shelf wear on dust cover. ** Fast Shipping! **
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New. New Inside and Outside. Clean and crisp pages w/no markings! You will be pleased. Excellent book! ( z1s87C ) Some very minor shelf wear on dust cover. ** Fast Shipping! **
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New in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ w/light rubbing, edgewear as shown. HB w/unclipped dj, Author inscribed and signed, 6 1/2 x 9 1/4", 13 chapters with b/w historic photo section. Author signed copies are RARE. This is the story of a daring and successful escape from a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland. The photo is specific to this listing.
