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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. [1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor , the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka ).
Richard L. Rashke (born 1936) [1] is an American journalist, teacher and author, who has written non-fiction books, as well as plays and screenplays. [2] He is especially known for his history, Escape from Sobibor, first published in 1982, an account of the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor in German-occupied Poland.
Sobibor (/ ˈ s oʊ b ɪ b ɔːr / SOH-bi-bor; Polish: Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard.It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland.
Stanislaw Szmajzner as partisan, shortly after his escape from Sobibor. Stanisław "Szlomo" Szmajzner (13 March 1927 – 3 March 1989 [1]) was one of 58 known survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp in German-occupied Poland and participated in the 1943 camp-wide revolt and escape from Sobibór.
Escape from Sobibor: Jack Gold: Based on the book by Richard Rashke Nominated for three Golden Globe Awards; won two, including Best Limited Series or Motion Picture made for Television: 1987 France Au revoir les enfants: Louis Malle: 1988 Poland United States And the Violins Stopped Playing: Alexander Ramati: 1988 United States The Attic: The ...
There was a great urgency in coming up with a good escape plan and Pechersky, with his army experience, was their best hope. [9] The escape had to also coincide with the time when the Sobibor's deputy commandant, Gustav Wagner, went on vacation, since the prisoners felt that he was sharp enough to uncover the escape plan. [9] [11] [12]
The Sobibor uprising was a revolt of about 600 prisoners that occurred on 14 October 1943, during World War II and the Holocaust at the Sobibor extermination camp in occupied Poland. It was the second uprising in an extermination camp, partly successful, by Jewish prisoners against the SS forces, following the revolt in Treblinka .
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel [1] [3] (20 August 1911 – 2 September 1996) [4] was an SS noncommissioned officer in Sobibor extermination camp.. After the Second World War, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, but he was ultimately released after serving 16 years in prison.