Out of the inmates who escaped, only 53 escaped the search-and-destroy raids the Nazis carried out in retribution. (JTA) — Arkady Wajspapir, a key figure in the 1943 uprising at the Sobibor ...

Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland where more than a quarter of a million Jews were annihilated, was also the site of the largest prisoner escape of World War II. Based on years of research, this ...

Semion Rosenfeld, who moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, was one of 47 prisoners to survive the September 1943 Sobibor uprising. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central ...

During World War II, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were ...