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Tell the world : the story of the Sobíbor revolt / Shaindy Perl.
LIBRA D805.5.S64 P47 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perl, Shaindy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sobibór (Concentration camp)--Uprising, 1943.
- Sobibór (Concentration camp).
- Nazi concentration camp uprisings--Poland.
- Nazi concentration camp uprisings.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors--New Jersey--Vineland--Biography.
- Holocaust survivors.
- New Jersey--Vineland.
- Poland.
- Sobibór (Concentration camp).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Sobibor.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lakewood, NJ : Israel Bookshop, [2004]
- Summary:
- A biography of Esther Terner Raab, who was born in Chełm, Poland, in 1922. Her father was killed shortly after the Nazi occupation in 1939; she, her mother, and her brother fled to Siedlce in 1940, where they were interned in the ghetto. Her mother was killed after the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; Raab and her brother were sent briefly to the Staw-Nowosioka labor camp, and then she was sent to Sobibór, where she was one of a small number of Jews chosen to work. Ca. 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibór in 1942-43. In October 1943, Raab's cousin, Leon Feldhendler, organized a revolt with the help of a Jewish Russian POW, Aleksandr (Sasha) Pecherskii. Several Nazi officers were killed and 300 Jews escaped. Raab and two other inmates fled to a farm in Janów and were hidden by a family friend, Stefan Marcyniuk. There she found her brother, and the four survived in hiding until the liberation in June 1944. Only 48 Sobibór inmates survived. Leon Feldhendler joined a group of communist partisans, but was shot by an antisemitic Pole on a street in Lublin in 1944. Raab married in 1946; she emigrated to the U.S. in 1950. Between 1950-83 she testified at trials of several Sobibór war criminals in Germany. She speaks at American schools and is the subject of a play by Richard Rashke, "Dear Esther". (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).
- ISBN:
- 9781600911859
- 1600911854
- 1931681511
- 9781931681513
- OCLC:
- 55214457
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