TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bialowitz,Philip "Fiszel".
AU  - Bialowitz,Joseph
AU  - Bartoszewski,Wladyslaw
TI  - A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
SN  - 9780299248031
AV  - DS134 
U1  - 940.53/18092 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Bialowitz, Philip, 1925-2016
KW  - Sobibór (Concentration camp)
KW  - Jews--Poland--Izbica Lubelska--Biography
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
KW  - Nazi concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór
KW  - Nazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Sobibór--Biography
KW  - World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Władysław Bartoszewski -- Preface -- Introduction by Joseph Bialowitz -- 1. Before War -- 2. War Begins -- 3. The Rosenbergers -- 4. Fritz -- 5. Summer 1942 -- 6. Fall 1942 -- 7. November 1942 to April 1943 -- 8. Life in Sobibór -- 9. Planning Vengeance -- 10. Escape from Sobibór -- 11. New Dangers -- 12. Liberation and Victory -- 13. Life as a Displaced Person -- 14. Resettling in the United States -- Epilogue: Life after Sobibór -- Notes
N2  - 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 forty-two 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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