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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.
The revolt was dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, directed by Jack Gold and adapted from the book by Richard Rashke. The film's consultants included survivors Thomas Blatt, Shlomo Szmajzner, and Esther Raab. More recently, the revolt was depicted in the 2018 Russian movie Sobibor, directed by Konstantin Khabensky.
Worked as an assistant to Richard Rashke in writing Escape from Sobibor and acted as a consultant on the movie adaptation. Interviewed Karl Frenzel. Herschel Cukierman [8] April 15, 1893: July 15, 1979 [6] 86 Kurów, Poland: Jewish May 1942: Hershel Zuckerman, including in Escape from Sobibor. Father of Josef Cukierman.
The book was a great success and was published in eight Hebrew editions, as well as in an English translation as To Survive Sobibor by Gefen Books. Journey to the Past with Gefen Shibolim was published in 1993 and describes his experiences with the campaign conducted by a group of high school students in 1991; the trip included a visit to ...
An award-winning documentary about the escape was made by Claude Lanzmann, entitled Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures. The revolt was also dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, in which Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for his portrayal of Pechersky. Pechersky ...
This is a list of people who were murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states that at least 170,000 people were murdered there. The Dutch Sobibor Foundation lists a calculated total of 170,165 people and cites the Höfle Telegram among its sources, while noting that other estimates range up to ...
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.