Escape from Sobibor

Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor extermination camp secretly organize a coordinated revolt, killing several SS officers before staging a mass breakout through the camp's minefields and fences. Hundreds escape into the surrounding forests, though many are later recaptured or killed.

The Sobibor uprising of October 1943, led by Alexander Pechersky and Leon Feldhendler, was one of the few successful prisoner revolts at a Nazi extermination camp, prompting the Germans to close and raze the camp afterward. Roughly three hundred prisoners escaped, though only a fraction survived the war.

Based on survivor testimony and historical accounts, the film is broadly faithful to the documented events of the uprising.

Directed by Jack Gold

Cast: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Pacuła

Positioned at 14 October 1943 within the Holocaust extermination camps phase of the war, as part of the Sobibor extermination camp uprising. This is entry 103 of 150 in the chronological archive.

• Sobibor
• Holocaust
• extermination camp
• uprising
• true story

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  Uprising

  19 April – 16 May 1943

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  The Zone of Interest

  1943–1944

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  The Pianist

  1939–1945

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  Schindler's List

  1939–1945

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  Defiance

  1941–1944

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  Come and See

  1943