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Chaim Engel, 87, a Sobibor Escapee, Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Chaim Engel, who helped carry out a group escape from a Nazi death camp, driven by the need to kill for revenge and hoping to save himself and his future wife, died on July 4 in New Haven.
He was 87.
Mr. Engel had a stroke after a car accident and then developed pneumonia, said his daughter, Alida Engel.
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He lived in Branford, Conn.
During World War II, Mr. Engel was a prisoner at Sobibor, a secret death camp in eastern Poland, where 250,000 people, chiefly Jews, were murdered. On Oct. 14, 1943, 300 prisoners escaped in an uprising that involved killing guards and camp officers.
Only 50 of those who escaped survived until the end of the war, but all had faced near certain death as prisoners.
The Sobibor uprising, one of the biggest escapes from a Nazi camp, and the August 1943 escape at Treblinka, another death camp in Poland, are often cited to contradict claims that Jewish prisoners died without resistance.
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