Escape from Stobivor
Actually, it's Sobibor--seeing that TV movie got me into researching the Operation Reinhard death camps. The book the movie was based on is really excellent, BTW.
(Schlomo, the young goldsmith, escaped, joined the partisans, then moved to Brazil after the war. In his interview with the author, it is implied that he had something to do with the fact that one of the camp's head honchos, who had been arrested in Brazil in the 1960s but avoided extradition, died violently soon after his release from prison. Leon, the revolt leader played by Alan Arkin, was murdered in a pogrom and didn't live to VE day. The Soviet POW played by Rutger made it back to Russia only to be sent to the gulag simply for surviving the Germans.)
The Soviet POW played by Rutger made it back to Russia only to be sent to the gulag simply for surviving the Germans.
Ah, that Stalin, such a poster child for logic and reasonability.
Thank you Kathy. I relied on my spotty memory rather than looking it up, as I should have done. I'm glad you knew to correct it. It's historically important, and should be remembered correctly.
It's depressingly fascinating stuff to research. Due to their uprising, Sobibor had the highest survival rate of the three Reinhard camps--about 50 people survived the war out of the estimated 250,000 who were sent there. Treblinka also had a revolt, so out of the 800,000 (estimated) people sent there, 40 survived. Belzec didn't have a successful revolt, so only two survived out of the million sent there. One of those two was murdered the day after he testified at the war crimes trial after the war.
Supposedly, there's bidding going on by Hollywood studios to turn
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
into a movie....
Jane Austen classic Pride and Prejudice revamped as zombie slayer novel
I will totally watch that.
Yesterday's Something Positive is right up our alley.
I wasn't sure where to post this - it's a movie tie-in video game based on a comic book so it was kind of a toss up between this thread, Gaming, or Other Media.
In any case, click on the console in the righthand corner to play the Minutemen arcade game!
Oh yeah, I read about that. It's done in an '80s, 8-bit style, right?
