A PROMISE AT SOBIBOR

AK, 16 November 2016
On November 4, at 3 p.m., a meeting with Philip Bialowitz, an author of ' Revolt at Sobibor: A Teenager's Story of Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland’, is to take place in the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw.


The book presents the situation of Jews in Poland during the interwar period, through the time of the occupation until the first years after the World War II. The most significant part is the description of life in the concentration camp in Sobibor.

In October 1943, the author, Philips Bialowitz, participated in a revolt organized by the inmates of the camp. Armed with knives, the prisoners killed SS-Men and, having taken control of the arms stock, about 600 of them tried to escape. Many of them were shot dead by Ukrainian guards, or they died on the minefield and during crossing wire entanglements. Half of them managed to escape. After suppressing the revolt, Nazis closed the camp down.

The book had its premiere in October 2008 and since then has received many approving reviews. It was recommended, among others, by professor Władysław Bartoszewski who used the following words:
‘Philip Bialowitz is a very strong voice of mankind’s conscience, and his book is a unique testimony of the truth about the darkest period in history’.
 
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