5 obscure facts from the depths of WWII history. Even Mike might not know these.
On October 14, 1943, Jewish prisoners at Sobibor escaped after killing 11 SS men with axes and knives. Approximately 300 escaped through minefields, only about 50 survived. The Nazis demolished Sobibor, built a farm over it, and planted trees attempt…
On October 14, 1943, Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor extermination camp carried out a mass escape led by Polish-Jewish officer Alexander Pechersky and Polish partisan Leon Feldhendler. They used axes and knives to silently kill 11 SS men — one by one…
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising lasted 28 days — April 19 to May 16, 1943 — making it the largest single act of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. A force of approximately 750 poorly armed Jewish fighters (with handguns, homemade grenades, and Moloto…
In April 1944, four Slovak Jewish prisoners escaped from Auschwitz — Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler — and compiled a 32-page detailed report describing the camp's layout, the gas chambers, the crematoria, the selection process, and the killing method…
While Anne Frank's diary is known worldwide, Dawid Sierakowiak — a 15-year-old Polish Jewish boy — kept a detailed diary in the Lodz Ghetto from June 1939 to April 1944. His entries, written in Polish, are among the most devastating primary documents…