Escape from Sobibor
"The authoritative version of the breakout from the Nazi experimentation camp at Sobibor. . . . Gives us a very good idea of how the will to survive can lead quite ordinary people to surmount the most extraordinary obstacles."--Meir Ronen, Jerusalem Post
Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor was where now-retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been accused of working as a prison guard. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Illinois Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780252064791
- Utgivelsesår
- 1995
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"The authoritative version of the breakout from the Nazi experimentation camp at Sobibor. . . . Gives us a very good idea of how the will to survive can lead quite ordinary people to surmount the most extraordinary obstacles."--Meir Ronen, Jerusalem Post
"This moving and angry book deserves to be read."--Susan Osnos, Washington Post
"A unique, unforgettable, deeply-moving and effective account of a death camp."--Allen A. Warsen, Detroit Jewish News
"Brilliantly reconstructs the degradation and drama of Sobibor. . . . A memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget."--Jordan E. Cohn, San Francisco Chronicle
"A sensitive, thoughtful, and well-researched account of the 'biggest prisoner escape of World War II.'"--Samuel Gold, Jewish Chicago
"A journalistic account in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood,"--Choice