However, they were discovered on 2 November 1942 and sent to Sobibor via Trawniki on a horse-drawn cart. Sobibor Upon his arrival at Sobibor, Felhendler was selected for labor due to the intervention of a cousin who told the Germans that he was a skilled carpenter. The rest of his family was sent to the gas chambers. Felhendler worked in the sorting barracks, where prisoners sorted through the luggage of the gas chamber victims. On his second day in the camp, he came across his relatives' belongings, including his brother-in-law's wedding ring, which he salvaged and took with him when he eventually escaped from the camp. In the spring of 1943, Felhendler led a small group of Sobibor prisoners in formulating an escape plan. Their initial idea had been to poison camp guards and seize their weapons, but the SS discovered the poison and shot five Jews in retaliation. Other plans included setting the camp on fire and escaping in the resulting confusion, but the mining of the camp perimeter by the SS in the summer of 1943 rendered the plan impractical. In late September 1943, a Holocaust transport of Jews from the Minsk Ghetto arrived. Among them was a Soviet POWs officer of the Red Army, Alexander Pechersky, who survived the selection to gas chambers. His presence gave new impetus to the escape plans. Pechersky soon assumed the leadership of the group of would-be escapees and, with Felhendler as his deputy, devised a plan that involved killing the camp's SS personnel, sending the remaining Soviet POWs to raid the arsenal and then fighting their way out the camp's front gate. The uprising, which took place on 14 October 1943, was detected in its early stages after a guard discovered the body of an SS officer killed by the prisoners. Nevertheless, about 320 Jews managed to make it outside of the camp in the ensuing melee. Eighty were killed in the escape and immediate aftermath. 170 were soon recaptured and killed, as were all the remaining inhabitants of the camp who had chosen to stay. Some escapees joined the partisans. Of these, ninety died in combat. Sixty-two Jews from Sobibor survived the war, including nine who had escaped earlier. Death in Lublin Felhendler was among those who survived the war, hiding in Lublin until the end of German occupation. The city was taken by the Soviet Red Army on 24