[Borges]

The 1987 TV film "Escape from Sobibor" is highly recommended.

[cweese]

Saw that one. Great film.

[IronJack]

Rest in peace. You paid your dues here on earth.

[dfwgator]

Escape From Sobibor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4R53qvwbag

[Skooz]

Rest in peace.

Even among concentration camps Sobibor was considered a unique kind of hell.

[God luvs America]

incredible movie...

[Avalon Memories]

I watched films taken by the Russian army when they liberated Auschwitz (sp) just last Saturday. My overwhelming thought was this...where was God? Yes, religious people will say that we have free will and that kind of hell on earth is the work of Satan. But that excuses God, who is supposed to have created everything, including Satan. Why create conditions that can lead to such horrific, indescribable evil in the first place?

[onedoug]

soros nostaligia

[vetvetdoug]

Even in 1987 there were only a handful of Sobibor survivors left, I believe six.

[dfwgator]

There is speculation as to how Gustav Wagner died. He had escaped to Brazil after the war, and was found dead in 1980 with a knife in his chest. The official story is that it was self-inflicted, but others suggest it was one of the Sobibor survivors that killed him.

[Billthedrill]

One of the Operation Reinhard camps, and the evidence very well covered up. They didn't find the gas chambers until 2014. There were very few escapees from the extermination camps because nobody was intended to reside there - even the word "camp" is misleading. Only the Sonderkommando lived more than 24 hours and they were periodically murdered as well. Yitzhak Arad's Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps tells the story, or as much of it as we knew or it in 1999. Reader discretion is advised.

[KingofZion]

Never saw the film, thanks for the link.

Will say a prayer for him tonight. These guys were braver and tougher than any whining NFL player.

In 2006 My wife and I visited Dachau in the winter. We were freezing in our heavy coats as we trudged through the snow from the barracks to the crematorium. How these people survived in threads with almost no food I will never know.

[daniel1212]

Very well made and revelatory. Most every adult should watch it