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Thomas Blatt has written a remarkable book that tells two stories. The first story is about a notorious Nazi death camp in Poland called Sobibor. This death camp achieved the awful task assigned to it by the Nazis: over a quarter of a million Jewish men, women and children were murdered there.
The second story is about the revolt at Sobibor. In the fall of 1943, over 300 slave workers escaped after a short, violent and desparate revolt. In the history of Jewish resistance movement under the German occupation, the revolt in Sobibor ranks the second in magnitude after the Warsaw uprising. It was the biggest and most successful uprising in all the Nazi camps.... Auschwitz Commandant Höss' memoirs concerning the revolt confirms the above.
"...The Jews (of Sobibor) were able to achieve a major breakout, during which almost all of the German personnel were wiped out..."
Blatt tells those two stories in measured tones: he neither exaggerates the heroism of the Jewish prisoners nor demonizes their cruel victimizers. This is a remarkable feat in itself, because Blatt was one of the prisoners who had a role in the revolt and who escaped from Sobibor. "I forced myself to be emotionally detached as a survivor," Blatt writes in the introduction "concerning myself only with recording history, while I sought interviews with the perpetrators themselves." Most compelling, however, is Tom's interview with Karl Frenzel, a Nazi officer at Sobibor....
'Sobibor: The Forgetton Revolt' gives a reader a broader understanding of the complicated methods of mass genocide. It is an important book for anyone interested in the genocide of European Jewry.
This book provides the reader with a gimpse into the life and death in the belly of the beast. --Michael Nutkiewicz
About the Author:
Author and lecturer. The subject of his writings and lectures concerns racism, intolerance and genocide. . . courage and resistance.
Tom Blatt is a survivor of the infamous Nazi death camp Sobibor, where he took part in the most daring and successful revolt and escape in any Nazi camp during the World War II.
The story of the revolt is retold in the award-winning CBS film, a Chrysler Corporation Special for 1987, Escape From Sobibor.
This important and deeply moving book, written by one of the heroes of the legendary 1943 Sobibor uprising, recounts one of the greatest escape stories in the annals of human history. Thomas Blatt's powerful and passionate narrative honors the memory of Sobibor's victims. It is "must" reading.
Overview
Thomas Blatt has written a remarkable book that tells two stories. The first story is about a notorious Nazi death camp in Poland called Sobibor. This death camp achieved the awful task assigned to it by the Nazis: over a quarter of a million Jewish men, women and children were murdered there.
The second story is about the revolt at Sobibor. In the fall of 1943, over 300 slave workers escaped after a short, violent and desparate revolt. In the...