Promise at Sobibor

by Philip Bialowitz and Joseph Bialowitz

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An eyewitness account of the prisoner revolt at a Nazi extermination camp, and the life of a teenaged boy who survived to tell the story. A Promise at Sobibor 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 Sobibor in occupied Poland. Sobibor 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 1283990997
  • ISBN13 9781283990998
  • Publish Date 1 January 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 220
  • Language English