Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor was where now-retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been accused of working as a prison guard. Sobibor also was the scene of the war's biggest prisoner escape. Richard Rashke's interviews with eighteen of those who survived provide the foundation for this volume. He ...
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Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor was where now-retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been accused of working as a prison guard. Sobibor also was the scene of the war's biggest prisoner escape. Richard Rashke's interviews with eighteen of those who survived provide the foundation for this volume. He also draws on books, articles, and diaries to make vivid the camp, the uprising, and the escape. In the afterword, Rashke relates how the Polish government in October 1993, observed the fiftieth anniversary of the escape and how it has beautified the site since a film based on his book appeared on Polish television.
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New. 1995. Reprint. Paperback. Poignant in its honesty and grim in details, Escape from Sobibor provides a vivid account of the biggest escape from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II. "Breathtakingly suspenseful and horrifying at the same time". --Publishers Weekly. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Rashke has written an unparalleled book. All as-told stories should read like SOBIBOR. In fact, you'd hardly know it was an as-told, for it is written using the techniques of fiction.
Schlomo is to be commended for having Rashke tell his story NOT in first-person. The point-of-view thus enables Rashke to get honestly into the mind of the characters. Like the ILIAD, the story is a higher truth than what actually happened, everything created and recreated and fully fleshed out.
David59
Oct 1, 2009
An Emotional Story of Suffering and Triumph
This book is founded on the story of but a few survivors that were committed to expose the atrocities of the SS while surviving in a Polish Nazi death camp in WWII. This is a reality check that isn?t an easy read for the faint of heart. I commend the author for his candidness in striving to create not only accuracy of event, but to add emotion that I often find lacking in these stories. This story is a reminder that survival is so much more than physical endurance, rather a mental strategy of continually playing a deadly game of risk and reward. I am reminded that a large part of success was the selection of key people to plan escape and then to carry out the task knowing that one mistake will most likely result in torture and death. For those that wish to have a reality check on life, this book is a good reminder of testing human extremes and endurance. On the one hand we are exposed to the extremes of human brutality while on the other we connect with the human desire to live.
