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A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz
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Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 306.
This is the true story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who in 1943 escaped the Nazi gas chambers at the Sobibór death camp. He joined with his brother and a small group of prisoners to carry out a daring and precisely planned revolt that killed SS officers and allowed roughly half of the camp's 650 remaining Jewish prisoners to flee through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forest. Only about forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war. Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz, now an American citizen, relates his eyewitness ... Read more
This is the true story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who in 1943 escaped the Nazi gas chambers at the Sobibór death camp. He joined with his brother and a small group of prisoners to carry out a daring and precisely planned revolt that killed SS officers and allowed roughly half of the camp's 650 remaining Jewish prisoners to flee through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forest. Only about forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war. Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz, now an American citizen, relates his eyewitness ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299248048
SKU
V9780299248048
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About Philip “Fiszel” Bialowitz
Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz is a retired jeweler who has spoken in North America and Europe about his experience at Sobibór, including testifying at war crimes trials, most recently at the 2010 German trial of John Demjanjuk. He lives in New York. Joseph Bialowitz is Philip's son and is an environmental manager and Holocaust lecturer who lives in California.
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