Escape from Sobibor

by Richard Rashke

Overview

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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252064791
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Richard Rashke, a former journalist and teacher, is the author of The Killing of Karen Silkwood and Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear.

Editorial Reviews

"A sensitive, thoughtful, and well-researched account of the ‘biggest prisoner escape of World War II.’” —Samuel Gold, Jewish Chicago 

“A journalistic account in the tradition of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.” —Choice 

“The authoritative version of the breakout from the Nazi experimentation camp at Sobibor. . . . Gives us a very good idea of how the will to survive can lead quite ordinary people to surmount the most extraordinary obstacles.” —The Jerusalem Post 

“This moving and angry book deserves to be read.” —The Washington Post 

“A unique, unforgettable, deeply moving and effective account of a death camp.” —Detroit Jewish News

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