4 real historical locations · Poland
Based on the true story of the Sobibor extermination camp uprising in October 1943 — the most successful prisoner revolt in any Nazi death camp. Over 300 prisoners escaped; about 50 survived the war. A rare story of armed defiance from within the heart of the Holocaust.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Poland.
The 1987 TV film recreates the October 1943 Sobibor prisoner uprising — the only successful mass escape from a Nazi death camp, in which 300 inmates broke ou...
On 14 October 1943, led by Soviet POW Alexander Pechersky, prisoners killed 11 SS officers in coordinated attacks before making a mass break. Of 600 prisoners that day, 300 escaped the fence. About 50 survived the war...
View location →The nearest town to Sobibor, where escapees dispersed after the October 14, 1943 revolt — some reaching safety, most hunted down.
Of the 300 prisoners who escaped through Sobibor's wire on October 14, 1943, only 47 survived the war. Most were betrayed to the Germans by Polish informers or caught in the forests around Włodawa. The camp was immedi...
View location →The forest refuge where some Sobibor escapees joined Soviet partisan groups operating in the Lublin region.
The Parczew Forest sheltered a significant Jewish partisan unit under Yechiel Grynszpan, who accepted escapees from Sobibor and nearby camps. The forest provided the only realistic sanctuary in the flat, German-contro...
View location →The major German garrison town where SS forces coordinated the manhunt for Sobibor escapees across the surrounding countryside.
Chełm was the headquarters of the SS administration responsible for Operation Reinhard — the systematic murder of Polish Jews in the Generalgouvernement. After the Sobibor revolt, security forces from Chełm fanned out...
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