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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philip 'Fiszel' Bialowitz , Joseph Bialowitz , Wladyslaw BartoszewskiPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.439kg ISBN: 9780299248000ISBN 10: 0299248003 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 30 November 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviews<p>"When a prisoner uprising freed hundreds of Jews from the Nazi death camp at Sobibór, Poland, in 1943, Bialowitz heard the leader call out, 'If you survive, bear witness to what happened here! Tell the world about this place!' In this harrowing first-person account, the author fulfills the promise he made then. . . . chilling, sobering and memorable."— Kirkus This testimony of a survivor of the Sobibor extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special. Jan T. Gross, Princeton University When a prisoner uprising freed hundreds of Jews from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland, in 1943, Bialowitz heard the leader call out, 'If you survive, bear witness to what happened here! Tell the world about this place!' In this harrowing first-person account, the author fulfills the promise he made then. . . . chilling, sobering and memorable. Kirkus A searing memoir of his boyhood in Poland and survival in a death camp. Sheldon Kirshner Journal This testimony of a survivor of the SobibOr extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special. --Jan T. Gross, Princeton University A searing memoir of his boyhood in Poland and survival in a death camp. -- Sheldon Kirshner Journal This testimony of a survivor of the Sobibor extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special. --Jan T. Gross, Princeton University This testimony of a survivor of the Sobibor extermination camp is extraordinarily important because of the circumstances that it recounts. But it is really the personality of the author and his narrative talent that make it very special. -Jan T. Gross, Princeton University When a prisoner uprising freed hundreds of Jews from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland, in 1943, Bialowitz heard the leader call out, 'If you survive, bear witness to what happened here! Tell the world about this place!' In this harrowing first-person account, the author fulfills the promise he made then. . . . chilling, sobering and memorable. - Kirkus <p> When a prisoner uprising freed hundreds of Jews from the Nazi death camp at Sobibor, Poland, in 1943, Bialowitz heard the leader call out, 'If you survive, bear witness to what happened here! Tell the world about this place!' In this harrowing first-person account, the author fulfills the promise he made then. . . . chilling, sobering and memorable. -- Kirkus Author InformationPhilip (Fiszel) Bialowitz (1925-2016) was a retired jeweler. He frequently spoke in North America and Europe about his experience at Sobibór, including testifying at several war crimes trials, most recently at the German trial of John Demjanjuk in 2010. Joseph Bialowitz is Philip's son. He is an environmental manager and Holocaust lecturer who lives in California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |