Escape from Sobibor
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After the war, Shlomo emigrated to Brazil,
where he married and raised 2 sons.

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In South America he
was largely responsible

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for the discovery of sergeant
Gustav Wagner in 1978.

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Brazilian law did not allow for
sergeant Wagner's extradition,

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but a year later he was
found, stabbed to death.

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The records list Wagner's death:
suicide.

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Captain Franz Reichleitner
was re-assigned to Trieste,

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and was killed by partisans less than
3 months after the Sobibor revolt.

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Esther Terner managed
to hide from Germans

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and hostile Polish nationals
until the Russian liberation.

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She moved to the United States and now
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lives with her husband,
Irving, in New Jersey.

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Esther has testified in many
war-crimes trials in West-Germany.

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Including the trial of sergeant Eric Bauer
who died in prison.

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Esther and Thomas Blatt
testified at the trial of sergeant

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Frenzel who was convicted and is
still alive, serving a life sentence.

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Sasha Pechersky and many
of his men made it back to

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Russian lines to rejoin
the fight against the Nazis.

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In 1963 Sasha gave key testimony in a
war-crimes trial against

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11 Ukrainian guards at Sobibor.
10 of them were sentenced to death.

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Today at 77, Sasha is retired
and lives with his wife

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Olga on Rostov-on-the-Don
in the Soviet Union.

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Luka vanished in the Polish
countryside. All efforts,

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including Sasha's, to locate
her proved unsuccessful.

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The good-luck shirt she gave to Sasha
is now displayed in a Russian museum

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honouring those who fought and died
for freedom during World War 2.

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Leon Feldhendler fought
his way back to Lublin

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in Poland where he remained
safe until the liberation.

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There he ran a small
business employing and helping

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many Jews who had survived
the camps, including Sobibor.

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14 months after the escape, in a
confrontation with a group of Anti-Semites,

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Leon was murdered by his
countrymen because he was a Jew.

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October the 14th 1943. Sobibor.

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