Escape from Sobibor

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Escape from Sobibor was a made-for-TV film which aired in 1987. It dealt with the extermination camp at Sobibór, the site of the only successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of Nazi extermination camps (there were two other uprisings, at Auschwitz and Treblinka, both unsuccessful). The film was directed by Jack Gold.

On October 14, 1943, members of the camp's underground resistance succeeded in covertly killing eleven SS and a number of Ukrainian guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although most were later re-captured and killed. The escape forced the Nazis to close the death camp, dismantling it and planting a forest to hide what they had done.

The screenplay was based on the book of the same name written by Richard Rashke. Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer were the primary stars of the film. It was filmed at Avala, Yugoslavia. Rutger Hauer earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (television).

[edit] See also

• The Grey Zone, 2001 movie about uprising in Auschwitz-Birkenau
• List of Holocaust films

[edit] External link

• Escape from Sobibor at the Internet Movie Database