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The story, gripping, inspiring, and heartbreaking at the same time, is of the uprising of 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.
The Sobibor escape was the largest and most successful of its kind during World War II. Remarkably, some of those who escaped are still alive today. Their existence bears witness to the fact that even in the very darkest of times, the faintest chink of light will always break through the gloom.
About 300 escape. SS functionaries and police units, with assistance from German military units, recapture about 100 and kill them. During the Sobibor prisoner uprising, Selma Wijnberg and Chaim Engel, who had fallen in love at the camp, escaped together. Two weeks later, in hiding in a barn, Selma began her diary describing their escape, their ...
On 14 October 1943, an armed uprising at Sobibór took place and hundreds of prisoners were able to escape. The revolt was planned after rumours spread in the summer of 1943 that Sobibór was due to be closed down and dismantled, and all of those who still worked at the site would be murdered.
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.
Sobibór: The Other Great Escape October 2013 marks the 70th anniversary of the mass breakout from Sobibór death camp. Althea Williams recalls an extraordinary event that is today largely forgotten.
Of 600 prisoners left in Sobibor on this day, 300 escape during the uprising. Among the survivors is Alexander Pechersky, the Soviet POW who played a key role in planning the revolt. Of those prisoners who escape, SS and police personnel from Lublin district recapture and shoot some 100 prisoners.
