A Promise at Sobibór: A Jewish Boy’s Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied PolandA 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 forty-two of them, including Fiszel, are known to have survived to the end of the war.
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Contents
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2 War Begins | 15 |
3 The Rosenbergers | 34 |
4 Fritz | 39 |
5 Summer 1942 | 46 |
6 Fall 1942 | 51 |
7 November 1942 to April 1943 | 57 |
8 Life in Sobibór | 70 |
10 Escape from Sobibór | 112 |
11 New Dangers | 139 |
12 Liberation and Victory | 147 |
13 Life as a Displaced Person | 157 |
14 Resettling in the United States | 164 |
Life after Sobibór | 168 |
Notes | 187 |
9 Planning Vengeance | 97 |