Escape From Sobibor Page #4

Ah... the king of Jews.

You will work and sleep in the

mechanics shop and at night,

in secret, you'll continue

to make gold jewellery

for me and for whoever I send to you.

Remember, if this secret leaks

you and the little king will be

dead 5 minutes later. Understood?

Yes.

- Sir, what about Toivi, sir?

- You better find yourself another job.

What other job, sir?

Any other job!

Get up! Get up!

Get up!

Alright, 25 for you.

And don't forget to count.

One! Two! Three! Four! Five!

Six! Seven! Eight! Nine! Ten!

Eleven! Twelve! Thirteen! Fourteen!...

Kapo! Hurry up! Move it!

Move along!

Here, You. Get the water.

- Got a light?

- I think so. - You two, wait!

- Now?

- At the stream, I'll hit him.

Alright, go ahead. Move!

- What's taking them so long? - I don't

know. - Stay here, I'll have a look.

Scharfhrer! Scharfhrer Wolf!

Two prisoners... escaped... at the stream!

They have a rifle!

You, you, you and you follow me!

Come on!

They got out.

Let's go! Go!

Stand at attention!

This morning two prisoners

escaped from North Camp.

by that idiotic example

also tried to escape. If any of you would

like to cheer. Go right ahead.

There will be no more escape attempts

in this camp. I'll repeat that:

There will be no more escape attempts

in this camp!

We're going to kill these

But we're going to do more than that.

We're going to allow each of these men.

the privilege of selecting one of you,

as his partner in death.

Go and select your partners.

You're all free to walk over and

select your partners. Do it now.

I said, do it now.

Do it now!

No! None of us will do.

We will never do it.

Let me explain.

This is simple mathematics.

So it shouldn't be

too difficult to understand.

If you 13 men do not

select 13 to die with you

then I will select 50.

So the decision is yours.

I'm sorry.

And now we begin. You will watch this,

so that you will remember.

If I find anyone turning away

or closing their eyes

then that person will join

these 26 who are about to die.

Scharfhrer Fallaster!

Yes, Hauptscharfhrer Wagner.

Take your positions.

Avenge us!

Fire!

Enough time off now.

Everyone back to work.

Tell the others... We'll meet in your

shed tonight. 8 o'clock

There's something we have to discuss.

We've been planning the escape

for a small number of people

but you saw what happened today

when 13 men tried to escape.

The same thing will happen again.

We can not leave hundreds behind

to be slaughtered. And they would be.

Therefore, the escape we plan must

be for every prisoner in Sobibor.

Everyone?

Even the workers in camp 3?

Yes, all 600.

Or else no one.

But that's impossible.

How can we get 600 people out of here?

I believe there is a way.

And I believe that we must find it.

Leon is right. It is an

incredible idea. 600 people!

Everyone in Sobibor must

have a chance to be free.

There is no other choice.

Shlomo?

Morris?

Mundek?

Itzhak?

Good, the we are agreed.

Alright, let's put our mind to

discovering what this plan should be.

There is one if we can just find it.

What about this?

We build 30 ladders in my carpenter shop.

They should be maybe 12 foot long.

This is perfect!

On a dark night we rush the fence.

ladder. Zip, zip, zip, zip.

In no time. That's 600 people.

- Even if you could build it,

where would we hide the ladders?

- Make it 20 ladders.

- We'll find a place to hide

them somewhere. I don't know.

- And what about the

minefields outside the fence?

- It won't work, Morris.

- That's alright, Morris. Keep thinking.

Every idea may be the right one.

- Let's talk about a tunnel.

- Exactly. It would have to

be at least 50 yards long.

- But how could we do that?

- It doesn't matter. Let's say we

can dig this tunnel and hide the dirt.

The suppose we start

the escape at midnight

and give each of us 600

people 1 minute to get through

the tunnel, crawl through

and escape into the woods.

which is impossible, but never mind,

that adds up to 600 minutes. 10 hours.

We'd still be escaping at

- Well, we have to come

up with a real plan soon.

- It's there. We can find it.

We'll meet again tomorrow.

- Russian soldiers.

- What are they doing here?

- They should be in a prisoner of

war camp. Maybe theyre all Jews.

- Maybe.

You wanted to know about the Russians.

They are all Jewish.

- They're here to do heavy

labour in the North Camp.

- Thanks.

See if their officer will meet me

in the womens barracks tonight.

I don't know what is going on,

but whatever it is, I wish you good luck.

No, no, no, no.

Now, we'll just see what he's like.

- Let's find out if he trusts us.

- Or whether we trust him.

Civilians and soldiers, Russians, Poles

trusting each other. I don't know...

- Well, we have to try.

- Supposing they escape?

If they escape, they'll pay for it.

- Lieutenant, I am Leon Feldhendler.

- Alexander Pechersky.

- This is Samuel Freiberg.

- A pleasure, lieutenant Perchersky.

Everyone calls me Sasha.

It saves time and energy.

Thank you. We would like

very much to know what's

happening in the outside

world. Would you tell us?

- Of course.

- What's happening in the war?

- Please, please.

- How far away is your army?

We are between 6 and 700 miles away.

We are beating back the Nazis,

but it is a slow process.

- Are there partisans

nearby? Could they help us?

- They have many things to do.

I'm afraid here, we must help ourselves.

Let us be open with each other.

You did not ask me here just to be

friendly with the Russian soldiers.

- No.

- So what do you want of us?

To see if we can trust each other.

- Why should I trust you?

We are 2 Jews in a death camp.

- Perhaps, together we can

device a way of surviving past

what they have planned for us.

We must get back to the barracks.

- They lock them at 10.

- Good night, Leon.

- Good night, Sasha.

- Samuel.

- He wants us to trust him.

- To do what?

- I do not know for sure.

- An escape?

- Hmm. Maybe.

- Why do we need civilians?

We are soldiers. We can handle it ourselves.

He's trying to use us.

He... He knows this place.

Maybe we should use him to get out.

Faster!

Wait!

Wait! Just wait!

- Are you ready?

- Almost, sir.

Wrong. You're ready now.

They've got 10 minutes got to everybody fed.

There's extra work today.

Start serving!

-10 minutes.

- We... we're trying, sir.

But not hard enough!

Don't, they will kill you.

Alright, enough. Kapos get these

people off to work.

I have a great deal of work

planned for you.

Move out! All of you! Do it now!

Be careful. They only need us

as long as the trains keep coming in.

- We must escape.

Yes, escape. For how many?

- All 600. Every prisoner in Sobibor.

- The whole camp?

Move on!

The more people who know of an escape plan

the less chance of success.

- Yes, of course. That's why

it is absolutely essential

that it will remain a

secret until the last minute.

Then everyone must get a chance.

- I will need a detailed

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