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In 1943 the Sobibor concentration camp in eastern Poland became the site of the biggest prison escape of World War II when 600 Jewish prisoners revolted against their guards, breaking through the walls and seeking refuge in the surrounding forest. The Nazis destroyed most physical evidence and left only a handful of documents, making Sobibor largely absent from Holocaust history. Richard L. Rashke painstakingly gathered testimonies, diaries, trial notes, and other records from over thirty surviving prisoners—among them, a Red Army officer who led the revolt—to retell the courageous uprising and provide an intimate portrait of daily life in a camp that claimed nearly a quarter of a million Jewish lives.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: Richard L. Rashke
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