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Title

Tell the world : the story of the Sobibor revolt / Shaindy Perl.

Author

Perl, Shaindy

Publication

Lakewood, NJ : Israel Bookshop, c2004.

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Details

Description

253 p. : ill., facsims., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

A biography of Esther Terner Raab, who was born in Chełm, Poland, in 1922. Her father was killed shortly after the Nazi occupation in 1939; she, her mother, and her brother fled to Siedlce in 1940, where they were interned in the ghetto. Her mother was killed after the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942; Raab and her brother were sent briefly to the Staw-Nowosioka labor camp, and then she was sent to Sobibór, where she was one of a small number of Jews chosen to work. Ca. 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibór in 1942-43. In October 1943, Raab's cousin, Leon Feldhendler, organized a revolt with the help of a Jewish Russian POW, Aleksandr (Sasha) Pecherskii. Several Nazi officers were killed and 300 Jews escaped. Raab and two other inmates fled to a farm in Janów and were hidden by a family friend, Stefan Marcyniuk. There she found her brother, and the four survived in hiding until the liberation in June 1944. Only 48 Sobibór inmates survived. Leon Feldhendler joined a group of communist partisans, but was shot by an antisemitic Pole on a street in Lublin in 1944. Raab married in 1946; she emigrated to the U.S. in 1950. Between 1950-83 she testified at trials of several Sobibór war criminals in Germany. She speaks at American schools and is the subject of a play by Richard Rashke, "Dear Esther".

Subject

• Raab, Esther, 1922-
• Sobibór (Concentration camp)
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Poland
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland > Personal narratives
• Holocaust survivors > New Jersey > Vineland > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal narratives

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 1931681511
• 9781931681513

OCLC

• 55214457
• SCSB-11097728

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library