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100	1		_aBialowitz, Philip "Fiszel".
245	1	2	_aA Promise at Sobibór : _bA Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aMadison : _bUniversity of Wisconsin Press, _c2010.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (220 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aA 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aBialowitz, Philip, 1925-2016.
650		0	_aSobibór (Concentration camp).
650		0	_aJews--Poland--Izbica Lubelska--Biography.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
650		0	_aNazi concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.
650		0	_aNazi concentration camp inmates--Poland--Sobibór--Biography.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aBialowitz, Joseph.
700	1		_aBartoszewski, Wladyslaw.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBialowitz, Philip "Fiszel" _tA Promise at Sobibór _dMadison : University of Wisconsin Press,c2010 _z9780299248000
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3445114 _zClick to View
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