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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810378603321

Autore

Rashke Richard L.

Titolo

Escape from Sobibor / / Richard Rashke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harrison, New York : , : Delphinium Books, , 1995

©1982

ISBN

1-4804-5850-3

Edizione

[Revised and updated edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (574 p.)

Disciplina

940.531503924

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Sobibor, Poland; The Prisoners; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; The Escape; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; The Forest; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; The Remnant: A Personal Epilogue

Chapter 38Chapter 39; Chapter 40; Chapter 41; Chapter 42; Chapter 43; Chapter 44; Image Gallery; Afterword; Acknowledgments, Sources, Notes; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Revised and Updated "Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . A memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget." -San Francisco Chronicle On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war. In thi