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.
- ISBN10 0722172508
- ISBN13 9780722172506
- Publish Date 23 April 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 July 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Macdonald & Co
- Imprint Sphere Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 448
- Language English