Escape from Sobibor

I think I have brought this up before but if you haven't seen this movie seek it out . It is the story of the only NAZI Death Camp where the prisoners fought back and staged a mass escape. I never fail to get worked up and choked up while watching this movie.

Good flick about the events leading to the escape from Sobibor. I found it in the $5 video section at wal-mart several years ago. It has Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer among the actors. Mentally mature teens are the only children who should view it. It does not shy away from the harsh reality of a WW2 Nazi death camp.

My ex-husband shows this movie in his history classes when he gets to the Holocaust.

The movie is excellent for a number of reasons, but there is one scene in particular that is very telling: right before the breakout, when some prisoners start falling apart before it even start. They literally cannot bring themselves to run and resist. They've been so stripped of identity and numb to their own captivity that they can't move. Think about it.

I had been looking for it in the video stores for a couple years,
when I found it in a bin at Wal-Mart for a couple bucks.
It's one of my favorite holocaust movies.
Thanks for the reminder.

I have seen it one time and been looking for it ever since.


AWESOME movie.

CB

Availible here

http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Sobibo..._bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1210649650&sr=8-2

Thank you. I will look for it.
I will NOT go Quietly....
I have never understood people who cannot realize that there are MORE of US then there are of THEM. THAT is our power.

1911user said:

Good flick about the events leading to the escape from Sobibor. I found it in the $5 video section at wal-mart several years ago. It has Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer among the actors. Mentally mature teens are the only children who should view it. It does not shy away from the harsh reality of a WW2 Nazi death camp.

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I know you mean well, but, excuse me - children today are WAY too "protected" from reality for their own good.

I was exposed to all the pictures of the Nazi death camps, all the pictures of WW2, including our dead soldiers half covered by sand on beaches in the Pacific, Australian soldiers trussed up, kneeling while a Japanese officer stood over them with a raised sword, about to decapitate them, etc., etc., while still a young child.

I was born in 1947. Books of WW2 were all over our house, my parents never protected my brothers and I from what had just happened right before we were born. WW2 was shown on TV all the time we were growing up, remember "Victory at Sea" and all those shows??

This is akin to never showing 911 anymore. I believe it should be shown in it's uncut entirety as it happened EVERY YEAR.

We aren't twisted by it. We have no "touchy feely" PC ideas about how good humanity is, instead we have a healthy view of just how inhuman people can be, and how important it is to safeguard our way of life against the potential for abuse.

Children can handle alot more than you think, unless they are so sheltered that they think "Bambi" is real life...
remember, up until the past several generations, most children were exposed to harvesting meat and all it entails rather than today's adults and kids who think meat grows in plastic...and saying "why can't we all just get along" will solve everything.

Believing that there are no monsters amongst us does no child or adult any good.
Believing that all cultures are equal and all people are basically "good" will get us killed or "dhimmiefied" soon.

ok, "rant off"

IMO, the best lesson to learn from these types of films is not to be a sheeple and go quietly into the night.

Stand up, Speak up, Act up before it's too late.

bbbuddy, some things just aren't appropriate.

Here's one scene from the movie: a Jewish mother has succeeded in hiding her baby in the camp, but a German soldier finds it and begins to take it away. The mother struggles with him. The baby begins to cry. You hear a gunshot, and the baby stops crying. The mother screams, and then he shoots her too.

Not something a child needs to see. It gave me nightmares as an adult.

Reality sucks far greater than any movie ever will. The noises, sights, smells, tastes and feelings of reality will never be truely duplicated by any Hollywood movie in our lifetime.

I'll let my 8 and 11 year-old watch history................to prepare them for the future.

pass the popcorn!

another good one that I liked was "Escape from New York" (1981) sort of a scifi/action adventure all rolled into one -


good sound track for this as well...


I just love escape movies....

BBuddy, I'll amend my recommendation to mentally mature children (not just teens). Maturity is not always tied to certain age groups. I would recommend that the parent(s) view it first so they would be ready to discuss certain events and answer questions from the children. Also, there was some full nudity IIRC. It was not glamorized but showed both men and women.

1911user said:

BBuddy, I'll amend my recommendation to mentally mature children (not just teens). Maturity is not always tied to certain age groups. I would recommend that the parent(s) view it first so they would be ready to discuss certain events and answer questions from the children. Also, there was some full nudity IIRC. It was not glamorized but showed both men and women.

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ok. I guess when I was6 I must have been mentally mature.

Fruity, again, my brothers and I saw pictures of little children/babies dead and mutilated when I was little. Along with explanations of the horror visited on them by enemy soldiers. It did not warp me/us or give me/us nightmares, and it just made me aware of how dangerous humanity can be in certain circumstances. That serves me well to this day...
To know and understand all possibilities makes one stronger and more able to cope with future adversity.

I

found the movie boring though historically interesting. You want a great read on something similiar with the benefit of being a great story and well written,

read Mila 18 by Leon Uris, about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Truly amazing what a handful of people can do in a crowded city with very little to work with.