A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland /

A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Bialowitz, Philip, 1925-2016.
Uniform title:Bunt w Sobiborze. English
Imprint:Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 196 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Bialowitz, Philip, -- 1925-2016.
Bialowitz, Philip, -- 1925-2016.
Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Jews -- Poland -- Izbica Lubelska -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives.
Concentration camp escapes -- Poland -- Sobibór.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Sobibór -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
Concentration camp escapes
Concentration camp inmates
Jews
Poland
Poland -- Izbica Lubelska
Poland -- Sobibór
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285299
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Other authors / contributors:Bialowitz, Joseph, 1974-
ISBN:9780299248031
0299248038
0299248003
9780299248000
1283990997
9781283990998
9780299248000
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
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.
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.
Other form:Print version: Bialowitz, Philip, 1925- Bunt w Sobiborze. English. Promise at Sobibór. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010 9780299248000

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