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Feldhandler was deported to the [[Sobibór extermination camp]] in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with [[Alexander Pechersky]] in the revolt of [[October 14]], [[1943]], that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.<ref>{{cite book |last=Blatt |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Blatt |title=From the Ashes of Sobibór |publisher=Northwestern University Press |date=1997 |location=Evanston, Illinois |isbn=0810112213 }}</ref> |
Feldhandler was deported to the [[Sobibór extermination camp]] in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with [[Alexander Pechersky]] in the revolt of [[October 14]], [[1943]], that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.<ref>{{cite book |last=Blatt |first=Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Blatt |title=From the Ashes of Sobibór |publisher=Northwestern University Press |date=1997 |location=Evanston, Illinois |isbn=0810112213 }}</ref> |
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In 1945, Feldhandler was killed accidentialy there by [[Armia Krajowa|Home Army]] partisan during execution of [[NKVD]] and [[UB]] collaborant Hersh Blank.{{fact|date=January 2009}} Pechersky was imprisoned by the [[NKVD]], but later released. In the movie ''[[Escape from Sobibor]]'' he was played by [[Alan Arkin]]. |
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He hid in Lublin until the end of Nazi occupation in July 1944. In 1945 he was shot and killed there by anti-semitic Poles.<ref>[http://sobibor.info/survivors.html Sobibor survivors website]</ref><ref>[http://holocaust.jsu.edu/USHMMpics2.html Holocaust website]</ref><ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/opinion/Polonia/Holocausto/elpepiopi/20050209elpepiopi_7/Tes El Pais article]</ref><ref>[http://www.magen.org.il/eduiot/0001_500.doc]</ref><ref>p.6, {{cite book |last=Reitlinger|first=Gerald|authorlink=Gerald Reitlinger|title=The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945 |publisher=A. S. Barnes|date=1961}}</ref><ref>p.144, {{cite book |title=Yad Washem Bulletin |publisher=Yad Washem-Remembrance Authority for the Disaster and the Heroism|date=1953}}</ref><ref>p.245, {{cite book |last=Kowalski|first=Isaac|title=Anthology on Armed Jewish Resistance, 1939-1945|publisher=Jewish Combatants Publishers House|date=1985}}</ref><ref>p.357, {{cite book |last=Rashke|first=Richard |authorlink=Thomas Blatt |title=Escape from Sobibor|publisher=University of Illinois Press|date=1995|isbn=0252064798}}</ref><ref> Biographic display regarding Leon Feldhandler at Muzeum Byłego Hitlerowskiego Obozu Zagłady w Sobiborze </ref> In the movie ''[[Escape from Sobibor]]'' he was played by [[Alan Arkin]]. |
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Revision as of 04:47, 24 January 2009
Leon Feldhendler (1910 – April 1945) was the son of a rabbi from Lublin.
Feldhandler was deported to the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. He organised the resistance in the camp and collaborated with Alexander Pechersky in the revolt of October 14, 1943, that led to the mass break out of more than 300 prisoners.[1]
In 1945, Feldhandler was killed accidentialy there by Home Army partisan during execution of NKVD and UB collaborant Hersh Blank.[citation needed] Pechersky was imprisoned by the NKVD, but later released. In the movie Escape from Sobibor he was played by Alan Arkin.
References
- ^ Blatt, Thomas (1997). From the Ashes of Sobibór. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0810112213.