A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland (Unabridged) A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland (Unabridged)

A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland (Unabridged‪)‬

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A Promise at Sobibór is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers. Between April 1942 and October 1943, about 250,000 Jews from European countries and the Soviet Union were sent to the Nazi death camp at Sobibór in occupied Poland. Sobibór was not a transit camp or work camp: Its sole purpose was efficient mass murder. On October 14, 1943, approximately half of the 650 or so prisoners still alive at Sobibór undertook a daring and precisely planned revolt, killing SS officers and fleeing through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forests, farms, and towns. Only about 42 of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war.

Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz, now an American citizen, tells his eyewitness story here in the real-time perspective of his own boyhood, from his childhood before the war and his internment in the brutal Izbica ghetto to his harrowing six months at Sobibór - including his involvement in the revolt and desperate mass escape - and his rescue by courageous Polish farmers. He also recounts the challenges of life following the war as a teenaged displaced person, and his eventual efforts as a witness to the truth of the Holocaust.

In 1943 the heroic leaders of the revolt at Sobibór, Sasha Perchersky and Leon Feldhendler, implored fellow prisoners to promise that anyone who survived would tell the story of Sobibór: Not just of the horrific atrocities committed there, but of the courage and humanity of those who fought back. Bialowitz has kept that promise.

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GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
JT
Jim Tedder
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:53
hr min
RELEASED
2014
30 January
PUBLISHER
University Press Audiobooks
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
381.7
MB

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