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Escape from Sobibor
Richard Rashke
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Description for Escape from Sobibor
Paperback. Poignant in its honesty and grim in details, Escape from Sobibor provides a vivid account of the biggest escape from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II. "Breathtakingly suspenseful and horrifying at the same time".--Publishers Weekly. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 586.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252064791
SKU
V9780252064791
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About Richard Rashke
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.
Reviews for Escape from Sobibor
"Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . A memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget."
Jordan E. Cohn, San Francisco Chronicle "A sensitive, thoughtful, and well-researched account of the 'biggest prisoner escape of World War II.'"
Samuel Gold, Jewish Chicago "A journalistic account in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold ... Read more
Jordan E. Cohn, San Francisco Chronicle "A sensitive, thoughtful, and well-researched account of the 'biggest prisoner escape of World War II.'"
Samuel Gold, Jewish Chicago "A journalistic account in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold ... Read more