Escape from Sobibor

By: Richard Rashke

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld

On October 14, 1943, 600 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 18 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.

©1982, 1995 Richard Rashke (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

A well-researched story of resistance

Everyone (one would hope) knows of Auschwitz and of the horrors inflicted there, largely because there were survivors to tell the story. Less is known of the death camps - Majdanek, Belzec and Sobibor. We need to know the stories of these camps, we need to know of the brave resistance efforts and we need to share these stories with our children.

History’s tragedy

I was only aware of the holocaust, this work brings it, in all it’s horrors, to the forefront of man’s inhumanity to itself. Hard to listen to, hard not to.

the best collection of TRUE nightmares'

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Well written and engaging

I had seen the movie, but this is so much better. Well researched and the follow up on interviewing and meeting the survivors added to the book. A must read for anyone interested in the holocaust or history.

Intense

An incredible in depth dive into a little known WWII event. Definitely worth a listen. You won't be disappointed. Also, not sure about the negative narration reviews. I've listed to over 100 audio books and found it to be well done. This isn't a novel and it shouldn't be read with large quantities of emotion.