A Promise at Sobibór
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A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland


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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.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Wladyslaw 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

About the Author :
Philip (Fiszel) Bialowitz is a retired jeweler who has spoken in North America and Europe about his experience at Sobibór, including testifying at war crimes trials, most recently at the 2010 German trial of John Demjanjuk. He lives in New York. Joseph Bialowitz is Philip's son and is an environmental manager and Holocaust lecturer who lives in California.

Review :
"The testimony of a survivor of the Sobibór extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special."--Jan T. Gross, Princeton University "Bialowitz heard the leader call out, 'If you survive, bear witness to what happened here! Tell the world about this place!' In this harrowing first-person account, the author fulfills the promise he made then."--Kirkus Reviews "Riveting, horrifying, and inspiring. . . . This is a superb account of survival and redemption as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy."--Booklist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780299248048
  • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 218
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 310 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0299248046
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
  • Width: 149 mm


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