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The prisoners had always known that they had been allowed to live only in order for them to work just to keep the death process running.
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Individual escapes had been made but then there would be severe retaliation to the whole camp then Feldhendler knew that an escape plan should include the whole camp.
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Jewish prisoners were regularly punishing even already exhausted prisoners would get wiped twenty-five lashes each.
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Sasha wouldn’t take anything that Frenzel offered him because he knew that it made Frenzel mad.
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Sasha and Feldhendler created 2 plans for them and the rest of the prisoners to escape
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This quote from Sasha "partisans have their tasks, and no one can do our work for us.” motivated the prisoners of Sobibor o make a plan to escape.
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The prisoners organized an underground unit
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When Wagner left it gave the prisoners the morale boost. That helped them start the revolt
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The prisoners were so excited to kill the Germans that they were at their positions waiting an hour early.
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SS officers would be lured into storehouses. When they got inside they were attacked by the jewish prisoners and killed with axes and knives
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The first SS soldier was killed with an axe followed by ten more SS men, and several Ukrainian guards. The telephone wires and electricity lines were cut. Within an hour, the camp was burning, guns were aimed at the guard towers
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The phone lines were cut early so the escapees would have several hours of fleeing time under the cover of darkness, before backup could be notified.
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The prisoner involved in the revolt were broken up into teams of two or three people each
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The prisoners were running to the fences. As some were trying to cut through it, others just climbed over.
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Some of the prisoners were firing back at the guards.
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Ran across a minefield to try and get away.
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Sasha stood up and a little speech that went something like this"Our day has come. Most of the Germans are dead. Let's die with honor. Remember, if anyone survives, he must tell the world what has happened here.”
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An SS man yelled, "A German is dead!" Which sent the rest of the camp to the revolt.
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Several out of 50 of the men that Sasha was leading had been chosen to go with him to do some reconnaissance.
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Within four days of the escape there was only 200 remaining and they continued to flee and hide.
