A Promise at Sobibor: A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland

Author:   Philip 'Fiszel' Bialowitz ,  Joseph Bialowitz ,  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
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9780299248000


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Philip 'Fiszel' Bialowitz ,  Joseph Bialowitz ,  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.439kg
ISBN:  

9780299248000


ISBN 10:   0299248003
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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<p>&quot;When a prisoner uprising freed hundreds of Jews from the Nazi death camp at Sobib&oacute;r, 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.&quot;&mdash; 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


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Philip (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.

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