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'''Leon Feldhendler''' (1910 – April 1945) was the son of a [[rabbi]] from [[Lublin]]. |
'''Leon Feldhendler''' (1910 – April 1945) was the son of a [[rabbi]] from Zolkiewka, a village near [[Lublin]], [[Poland]]. |
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Feldhandler was deported to the [[Sobibór extermination camp]] in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with [[Alexander Pechersky]] in the revolt of [[October 14]], [[1943]], that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.<ref>{{cite book |last=Blatt |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Blatt |title=From the Ashes of Sobibór |publisher=Northwestern University Press |date=1997 |location=Evanston, Illinois |isbn=0810112213 }}</ref> |
Feldhandler was deported to the [[Sobibór extermination camp]] in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with [[Alexander Pechersky]] in the revolt of [[October 14]], [[1943]], that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.<ref>{{cite book |last=Blatt |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Blatt |title=From the Ashes of Sobibór |publisher=Northwestern University Press |date=1997 |location=Evanston, Illinois |isbn=0810112213 }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:53, 24 January 2009
Leon Feldhendler (1910 – April 1945) was the son of a rabbi from Zolkiewka, a village near Lublin, Poland.
Feldhandler was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with Alexander Pechersky in the revolt of October 14, 1943, that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.[1]
He hid in Lublin until the end of Nazi occupation in July 1944. In 1945 he was shot and killed there by anti-semitic Poles.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In the movie Escape from Sobibor he was played by Alan Arkin.
References
- ^ Blatt, Thomas (1997). From the Ashes of Sobibór. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0810112213.
- ^ Sobibor survivors website
- ^ Holocaust website
- ^ El Pais article
- ^ [1]
- ^ p.6, Reitlinger, Gerald (1961). The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945. A. S. Barnes.
- ^ p.144, Yad Washem Bulletin. Yad Washem-Remembrance Authority for the Disaster and the Heroism. 1953.
- ^ p.245, Kowalski, Isaac (1985). Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945. Jewish Combatants Publishers House.
- ^ p.357, Rashke, Richard (1995). Escape from Sobibor. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0252064798.
- ^ Biographic display regarding Leon Feldhandler at Muzeum Byłego Hitlerowskiego Obozu Zagłady w Sobiborze
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