ID

FBW000995      Fiction

Country / Year

, 1987

Original Title

Escape from Sobibor

Other Title(s)

Sobibor (German)

Directed by

Jack Gold

Produced by

Zenith Productions Ltd.

Length

149'

Format

35mm/farbe

Abstract

In October 1943 six hundred Jews, including some Red Army POWs, decide to escape from Sobibor death camp in Poland in the largest prisoner revolt and escape of WWII. The leader of the group was a rabbi's son who made it to freedom with half the original group.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; Uprisings; Escape attempts; Camps; Poland; Sobibór (Extermination camp); Extermination camps