A Promise at Sobibor
A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
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Jim Tedder
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A 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 42 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.
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- skryba
- 21-03-23
Dreadfully harrowing story
It almost defies belief that this could be real. Narration awful- so staccato and no flow. Virtually every word had a pause before it. I had to speed up the whole thing by 2 points just to get through it without severe listening irritation.
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- Ed M.
- 11-12-18
Incredible story
A gripping story, but the narration could have been better. The wits and instinct to survive can be truly incredible.
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- James
- 15-01-15
Great story, oddly narrated
A very enjoyable story of survival and resistance against the odds. Genuinely exciting at times.
However I found the narrator's occasional tendency to put. Full. Stops. After. Every. Word quite irritating. But that's probably just me.
Definitely worth a listen.
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- kes chapman
- 06-05-19
promise from sobibor
having watched the film, it is possible to recognise the characters he speaks off.
Wagner, Tovey, Sasha,and Leon to mention a few
very well written and although slow in places narrated with conviction.
A part of history we should never forget.
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