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A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland / Philip "Fiszel" Bialowitz, with Joseph Bialowitz.

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A Promise at Sobibor 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 Sobibor in occupied Poland. Sobibor was not a trans...

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Main Author: Bialowitz, Philip, 1925-2016
Other Authors: Bialowitz, Joseph, 1974-
Other title:Bunt w Sobiborze. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Polish
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Bialowitz, Philip, > 1925-2016.
Sobibór (Concentration camp)
Jews > Poland > Izbica Lubelska > Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives.
Nazi concentration camp escapes > Poland > Sobibór.
Nazi concentration camp inmates > Poland > Sobibór > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance.
Bialowitz, Philip, > 1925-
Jews
Poland
Poland > Izbica Lubelska
Poland > Sobibór
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Sobibor
  • 9. Planning Vengeance
  • 10. Escape from Sobibor
  • 11. New Dangers
  • 12. Liberation and Victory
  • 13. Life as a Displaced Person
  • 14. Resettling in the United States.

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