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- A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
This is the true story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who in 1943 escaped the Nazi gas chambers at the Sobibór death camp. He joined with his brother and a small group of prisoners to carry out a daring and precisely planned revolt that killed SS officers and allowed roughly half of the camp’s 650 remaining Jewish prisoners to flee through minefields and machine-gun fire into the surrounding forest. 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, relates his eyewitness story in “realtime” perspective, from his childhood before the war to his life in the Izbica ghetto, his six months of internment and resistance at Sobibór, and his rescue by courageous Polish farmers. He also recounts the challenges of life following the war as a displaced teenager and his eventual efforts as a witness to the truth of the Holocaust.
Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz, now an American citizen, relates his eyewitness story in “realtime” perspective, from his childhood before the war to his life in the Izbica ghetto, his six months of internment and resistance at Sobibór, and his rescue by courageous Polish farmers. He also recounts the challenges of life following the war as a displaced teenager and his eventual efforts as a witness to the truth of the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xvii-xxi
- 1. Before War
- pp. 3-14
- 2. War Begins
- pp. 15-33
- 3. The Rosenbergers
- pp. 34-38
- 5. Summer 1942
- pp. 46-50
- 6. Fall 1942
- pp. 51-56
- 7. November 1942 to April 1943
- pp. 57-69
- 8. Life in Sobib
- pp. 70-96
- 9. Planning Vengeance
- pp. 97-111
- 10. Escape from Sobib
- pp. 112-120
- 11. New Dangers
- pp. 139-146
- 12. Liberation and Victory
- pp. 147-156
- 13. Life as a Displaced Person
- pp. 157-163
- 14. Resettling in the United States
- pp. 164-167
- Epilogue: Life after Sobib
- pp. 168-186
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299248031
Related ISBN(s)
9780299248000, 9780299248048
MARC Record
OCLC
673368421
Pages
218
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2012