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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 ).
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.
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.
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.
Worked in the stables and later in the Erbhof, taking care of chickens and ducks. During the revolt, he escaped with Ester Raab and hid with a friend of her family. In 1949, he and Raab encountered Sobibor "gasmeister" Hermann Erich Bauer in Berlin, leading to his arrest. Moved to New York City and became a cab driver.
A handful of Arbeitshäftlinge managed to escape while assigned to the Waldkommando, inmate details assigned the task of felling and preparing trees for the body disposal pyres. The majority of the survivors among Sobibor's Arbeitshäftlinge survived as a result of their camp-wide revolt on October 14, 1943.
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 .
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]