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Escape From Sobibor by Richard Rashke, Richard L. Rashke is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Revised and Updated “Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . A memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget.” —San Francisco Chronicle On October 14, l943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war.In this edition of Escape from Sobibor, fully updated in 2012, Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with eighteen of the survivors. It vividly describes the biggest prisoner escape of World War II. A story of unimaginable cruelty. A story of courage and a fierce desire to live and to tell the world what truly went on behind those barbed wire fences. From Library JournalInformation 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 o
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Rashke, Richard L. Rashke
- Publisher
- Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453286272
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.25 / 5 (1,579 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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