Escape from Sobibor — 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 out after killing 11 SS officers.
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. The uprising directly caused Sobibor's immediate closure and demolition under Operation 1005 to hide evidence of the killings.