escape from sobibor

Maud 2022-10-05 16:30:20

In 1944, near the end of World War II, the Nazi army established three concentration camps for prisoners on death row in eastern Poland, one of which was called Sobibor. In another concentration camp, there was a mass exodus, and the officials in charge of Sobibor vowed never to let such a thing happen in Sobibor. In this torture camp, escape was the only way out. Even more serious, if a group of prisoners escaped, the Germans would slaughter a corresponding number of prisoners. Any larger escape would mean the life of the guards and German government officials in charge. A death row prisoner is in such an exceptionally well-guarded concentration camp...

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  • 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!