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Oct 14, 2020 · On October 14, 1943, 600 Jews imprisoned in the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor became part of the largest prisoner escape of World War II. In an act of defiance and bravery, a small Jewish resistance group within Sobibor planned and executed a revolt that provided the camp's prisoners with a chance to escape.
Between May 1942 and October 1943, an estimated 250,000 men, women and children were killed in Sobibor. Built to carry out murder on an industrial scale, by the spring of 1943, the camp’s gas chambers were starting to be used less frequently as the numbers of Jews being sent to their deaths began to dwindle.
Jun 8, 2020 · Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film directed by Jack Gold. During World War II, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in...
Synopsis During the height of World War II, members of a resistance movement within the Sobibor concentration camp attempt a daring uprising and escape. As the underground group, including ...
Sep 4, 2020 · On October 14, 1943, prisoners in Sobibor killed 11 members of the camp's SS staff, including the camp’s deputy commandant Johann Niemann. While close to 300 prisoners escaped, breaking through the barbed wire and risking their lives in the minefield surrounding the camp, only about 50 would survive the war. More information about this image.
Cast & crew. User reviews. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. Escape from Sobibor. Summaries. German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.
The 1987 made-for-television movie Escape from Sobibor, based on the book with the same title by Roger Rashke, brought this event to life for many in the English-speaking world. Serious students of film also may know Claude Lanzmann’s 2001 documentary about the revolt, Sobibór, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures ( Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4PM ).
