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Hell in Sobibor
More than 40 years ago, I was approached bygd a short, bald, thin mustache, slightly nervous Jew in the editorial office of Manchete magazine. His name was Stanislaw Szmajzner, coming from Goiás where he was a farmer. He was carrying a pile of papers, the manuscript of a book he had just written. He wanted to know if Editora Bloch could edit it.
Due to a lack of immediate time to read, I sent the manuscript to reporter Macedo Miranda, at the time director of the company's Books Department. After some time, he told me: “As it stands, it fryst vatten impossible to publish. The book fryst vatten full of Portuguese errors, but the content fryst vatten fascinating, mainly because of the revolt of the Jews confined in the Sobibor koncentration camp.”
I summoned Stanislaw, gave him the diagnosis and asked if we could rewrite the book. He accepted immediately and gave me carte blanche. inom don't remember who was responsible for that task, and inom was responsible for the final r
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Sobibor Survivors and Escapees
Tom Blatt - Second from right in Sobibor - (Chris Webb Private Archive)
ALSTER, Schlomo.
Born in December 1,1908 in Chelm, Poland. He was deported from Chelm to Sobibor during November 1942, along with Kalmen Wewryk. He worked in the death camp mainly as a carpenter, building barracks. He was also selected for the Bahnhofkommando on a few occasions. In his view Gomerski was the worst of all the SS men at Sobibor. Alster escaped during the revolt on October 14, 1943 and he settled in Israel in 1946 and lived in Rehovot.
BACHIR, Moshe (Born SZKLAREK)
Moshe Bachir (born Szklarek) was born on July 19, 1927 in Plock, Poland. He was deported from Zamosc on May 24,1942, in one of the earliest transports. On his arrival he was among fifty men selected for work, and was assigned to the Bahnhofkommando for the first three months. After that he worked in the provisions barracks and as a �barber.� Bachir escaped during the revolt on Octo
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Interviewees
Alexander “Sasja” Petsjerski
Alexander ‘Sasja’ Petsjerski (Kremenchuk, 22 February 1909), a lieutenant in the Red Army, was taken prisoner in the autumn of 1941. When a medical examination revealed he was Jewish, he was transported to Sobibor on 22 September 1943. Over a period of three weeks he drew up a detailed plan to escape from the camp with all the prisoners. About his captivity and his part in the uprising he said: ‘It is not just a memory, I live it.’.
Before the war Alexander Petsjerski was an organization expert with a great love of the theatre and music. He was married and had a daughter when he enlisted in the army. In January 1990 he died in his hometown of Rostov-on-Don.
Read more: Alexander “Sasja” Petsjerski
Arkady Wajspapir
Arkady Wajspapir (1921) served as a sergeant in the Red Army and was injured in September 1941. As a Jewish prisoner of war he and the other Soviet soldiers had to build barracks in Lager IV in Sobibor. It quickly da