Alan Arkin

Alan Arkin

  • Born: 1934-3-26
  • Height: 5' 9½" (1.77 m)
  • Extended Reading
    • Hildegard 2022-07-06 19:19:31

      This is the cry of the free, it is a resistance to power, a bravery to live

      The British TV movie " Escape from Sobibor " released in 1987 is about the over-camping incident that took place here.

      Particularly impressive images:

      1. In the movie we see how SS officers brutally punished with almost sadistic pleasure, most Jews were tricked into "bathing" - meaning they were...

    • Theresa 2022-07-06 22:46:37

      The strong are not compassionate, the weak are not brave

      One of the most thrilling WWII prison break movies. Sobibor extermination camp in eastern Poland, one of the three major concentration camps where Nazi Aktion Reinhard massacred Jews during World War II.

      The Nazi method of racial massacres was: Jews from all over Europe were delivered by railway in...

    Escape from Sobibor quotes

    • Naomi: Please, what are you going to do?

      Sgt. Gustav Wagner: What do you think? There are no babies in Sobibor.

      Naomi: No! You're going to kill her.

      Sgt. Gustav Wagner: Because I'm in a good mood today, I'm going to let you live.

      Naomi: Give me my baby!

      Sgt. Gustav Wagner: I don't understand, I'm offering you a chance to live. It's quite unusual.

      Naomi: [spits in Wagners face] I spit on your offer, you Nazi bastard!

      [Wagner draws his pistol and shoots both Naomi and her baby]

    • Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner: [on hearing that Sobibor is a death camp and his parents and sister are dead] You knew this, you knew and you didn't tell us.

      Toivi Blatt: My parents are dead too. The sergeants, they said I wasn't to tell anyone, they'd kill me.

      Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner: Our mother and our father and our sister, are murdered. Now I want to kill. I *will* kill!