Escape from Sobibor (1987)

Directors

Jack Gold

Cast

Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd

The story

When a new trainload of Polish Jews arrives for processing at Sobibor, the German Commandant assures them the place is a work camp. SS officers select a small number of prisoners with trade skills (such as goldsmiths, seamstresses, shoemakers, and tailors) and the remainder are sent to a different part of the camp from which a pillar of smoke rises day and night. The prisoners come to realise Sobibor is a death camp where Jews are exterminated in gas chambers, and cremated in large ovens.

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