This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is "a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
Rashke is also a produced screenwriter and playwright; his work has appeared on network television and in New York..
His books have been translated into eleven languages and have been adapted for screen and television.
About the Author: Richard Rashke is the author of nonfiction books including The Killing of Karen Silkwood (2000) and Useful Enemies (2013).
A story of courage and a fierce desire to live and to tell the world what truly went on behind those barbed wire fences.
A story of unimaginable cruelty.
It vividly describes the biggest prisoner Escape of World War II.
In this edition of Escape from Sobibor , fully updated in 2012, Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with eighteen of the survivors.
Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war.
Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods.
They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines.
On October 14, 1943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted.
This true story of a revolt at a Nazi death camp, newly updated, is "a memorable and moving saga, full of anger and anguish, a reminder never to forget" ( San Francisco Chronicle )
