These Are The Craziest Prison Break Stories Ever

These Jewish Prisoners Overtook A Nazi Death Camp

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This one is different than the rest, in a good way. Sobibor was a concentration camp during WWII, and the Nazi guards notoriously handled uprisings in horrifying ways. Some of the prisoners, including Leon Feldhendler and Russian First Lieutenant Alexander “Sasha” Pechersky, began to plan to fight back.

They planned to have every prisoner stage a fight at once. At this particular camp, the Nazi SS officers were in charge, but the guards were Ukrainians local to the area. Perchersky hoped that if they killed all of the SS soldiers, the Ukrainians would give up. The prisoners fashioned themselves various weapons to use. When the moment came, they were successful and killed every SS officer. Three hundred of the 600 prisoners escaped.