Sobibor. The uprising in the death camp

This is a book about the power of the human spirit, which the impossible made real.
This is a story about the escape from the hopeless space, about the victory of good over evil, the desire for life and freedom - over the inhuman mechanism of the destruction machine.
This is a story about the only successful uprising of prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp for the entire time of the Second World War.
This is a novel about the uprising in the death camp of Sobibor in 1943, organized by Alexander Pechersky (1909-1990) - a Soviet officer and an universal hero.

The film "Sobibor" gives a completely different image. The appearance on the screen of such a hero - the present and at the same time unconditionally positive, from which you really want to make life - seems to me a significant event. I hope the readers of this book and spectators of the film "Sobibor" will agree with me.
Vladimir Medinsky
Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation