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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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A Nazi death camp where over
one quarter of a million Jews were killed.
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But in the revolt that day, over 300
of the 600 prisoners made it to freedom.
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Something which had never happened before,
and would never happen again in World War 2.
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Within days, SS-chief Himmler
ordered the camp closed,
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dismantled and planted with pine trees.
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In that forest now stands
this monument to the dead.
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It is also a reminder
of the valiant fighters of Sobibor
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who were among those who began to make
the idea a vow "never again" a reality.
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# translation: matopotato #