from observation towers, cutting many of the fleeing prisoners down, and other would-be escapees are killed on the minefield surrounding the camp. But over 300 Jews reach the forest and escape. As the survivors flee deeper into the forest, famed newscaster Howard K. Smith narrates the fates that befell some of the survivors on whose accounts the film was based. Of the 300 prisoners who escaped, only approximately 50 survived to see the end of the war in 1945. Pechersky makes it back to Soviet lines and rejoins the Red Army, surviving the war, and Feldhendler lives to see the end of the war but is killed shortly afterwards in a clash with anti-semitic Poles. After the uprising, which was the largest escape from a prison camp of any kind in Europe during World War II, Sobibor was bulldozed to the ground, and trees were planted on the site to remove any sign of its existence. Cast In credits order: Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler Joanna Pacuła as Luka (Gertrude Poppert) Rutger Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman Emil Wolk as Samuel Freiberg Simon Gregor as Stanisław 'Shlomo' Szmajzner Linal Haft as Kapo Porchek Jason Norman as Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt Robert Gwilym as Chaim Engel Eli Nathenson as Moses Szmajzner Kurt Raab as SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel Eric Caspar as SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner Hugo Bower as SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Beckmann Klaus Grünberg as SS-Oberscharführer Erich Bauer Wolfgang Bathke as SS-Unterscharführer Hurst Henning Gissel as SS-Scharführer Fallaster Henry Stolow as SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann Ullrich Haupt as SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf Patti Love as Eda Fiszer Lichtman Judith Sharp as Bajle Sobol as Selma Wijnberg David Miller as Tailor Mundek Jack Chissick as Hershel Zuckerman Ned Vukovic as Morris Sara Sugarman as Naomi Peter Jonfield as Kapo Sturm Dijana Kržanić as Esther Terner Irfan Mensur as Kalimali Zoran Stojiljković as Boris Svetolik Nikačević as Old Man Miša Janketić as Oberkapo Berliner Dejan Čavić as Kapo Spitz Zlatan Fazlagić as Weiss Predrag Milinković as Kapo Jacob Svetislav Goncić as Gardener Gojko Baletić as Guard (uncredited) Milan Erak as SS Corporal (uncredited) Rastislav Jović as Shlomo's Father (uncredited) Erol Kadić as Gardener Miroljub Lešo as Prisoner (uncredited) Bozidar Pavićević-Longa as SS-Sturmmann Ivan Klatt (uncredited) Howard K. Smith as Narrator (American version) (uncredited) Dragomir Stanojević as Guard (uncredited) Predrag Todorović as Guard (uncredited) Jelena Žigon as Shlomo's