A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland / Philip "Fiszel" Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz.

By:

Bialowitz, Philip, 1925-2016

Contributor(s):

Bialowitz, Joseph, 1974-

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780299248031
0299248038
0299248003
9780299248000
1283990997
9781283990998

Uniform titles:

Bunt w Sobiborze. English

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Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Promise at Sobibór.DDC classification:

940.53/18092 22

LOC classification:

DS134.72.B527 A3 2010eb

NLM classification:

000129457

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Contents:

1. Before War -- 2. War Begins -- 3. The Rosenbergers -- 4. Fritz -- 5. Summer 1942 -- 6. Fall 1942 -- 7. November 1942 to April 1943 -- 8. Life in Sobibor -- 9. Planning Vengeance -- 10. Escape from Sobibor -- 11. New Dangers -- 12. Liberation and Victory -- 13. Life as a Displaced Person -- 14. Resettling in the United States.

Summary: 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 so prisoners still alive at Sobibor undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS officers and fleeing through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forests, farms, and towns. Only about forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war.Summary: In 1943 the heroic leaders of the revolt at Sobibor, Sasha Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler, implored fellow prisoners to promise that anyone who survived would tell the story of Sobibor: not just of the horrific atrocities committed there, but of the courage and humanity of those who fought back, Bialowitz has kept that promise.--Book Jacket.

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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 so prisoners still alive at Sobibor undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS officers and fleeing through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forests, farms, and towns. Only about forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war.

In 1943 the heroic leaders of the revolt at Sobibor, Sasha Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler, implored fellow prisoners to promise that anyone who survived would tell the story of Sobibor: not just of the horrific atrocities committed there, but of the courage and humanity of those who fought back, Bialowitz has kept that promise.--Book Jacket.

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