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The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?

Posted by SueC <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=SueC' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 30, 2023, 12:30 am

Lots of films on TV this week with a WW2 Holocaust theme with one notable exception - the excellent "Escape from Sobibor". If you don't know the film, try and catch it when it eventually reappears. Its low-key documentary style tells the story of the mass escape from Sobibor Concentration Camp after an armed uprising led by a Russian POW and a Polish tailor. Although made in the Cold War years of the 1980's, it had no trouble acknowledging its Russian hero. Such a film couldn't be made today for the same reason that it's missing from the Holocaust season - it told the truth about the Camp's Ukrainian prison guards who generally out-Nazi'd the German version.

Re: The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 30, 2023, 5:44 am, in reply to "The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?"

It's a bit American but a fairly good film.

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Re: The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?

Posted by scrabb <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=scrabb' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 30, 2023, 3:30 pm, in reply to "Re: The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?"

This is a 36-minute documentary -- fairly recent by the look of it -- on the revolt by prisoners at this camp, and it does mention the Ukrainian guards who aided the SS in shooting the escaping inmates. It also details how an "ordinary" German from a working class background became a fervent Nazi and the deputy commander of the camp.

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Excellent point Sue ..

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 31, 2023, 1:46 am, in reply to "The only movie missing from Holocaust 'season' is "Escape from Sobibor" - I wonder why?"

https://www.jpost.com/International/Ukrainians-guards-took-part-in-extermination

- Respectfully, Shyaku

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