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Escape from Sobibor - Softcover

Rashke, Richard

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9780252064791: Escape from Sobibor
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252064798 ISBN 13: 9780252064791
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1995

Synopsis

Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor was where now-retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been accused of working as a prison guard. Sobibor also was the scene of the war's biggest prisoner escape.
 
Richard Rashke's interviews with eighteen of  those who survived provide the foundation for this volume. He also draws on books, articles, and diaries to make vivid the camp, the uprising, and the escape. In the afterword, Rashke relates how the Polish government in October 1993, observed the fiftieth anniversary of the escape and how it has beautified the site since a film based on his book appeared on Polish television.
 

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About the Author

Richard Rashke, a former journalist and teacher, is the author of The Killing of Karen Silkwood and Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear.

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Information on the Sobibor concentration camp was sketchy at best until Rashke tracked down and interviewed as many of the survivors as possible. The result, said LJ's reviewer, is "the first reliable history of this camp. A well-researched and well-written work" (LJ 10/1/82).
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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252064798
ISBN 13 
9780252064791
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
416
Rating
  • 4.33 out of 5 stars
    3,156 ratings by Goodreads