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

A searing memoir of his boyhood in Poland and survival in a death camp. "Sheldon Kirshner Journal" " "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"" 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" "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

Translated from the Polish edition published in 2008.