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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 ).
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 .
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.
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.
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.
One of the leaders of the revolt and escape from Sobibor Leon Felhendler ( Lejb Felhendler ) [ 1 ] (1 June 1910 – 6 April 1945) was a Polish resistance fighter known for his role in organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at Sobibor extermination camp together with Alexander 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 ...
Stangl was Sobibor's commandant from 28 April until the end of August 1942, at the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. He claimed that Odilo Globočnik had initially suggested that Sobibor was merely a supply camp for the army and that the true nature of the camp became known to him only when he himself discovered a gas chamber hidden in the woods ...