Escape from Sobibor by Richard Rashke In the "New Afterword" of the 1995 reprint of Escape from Sobibor, Richard Rashke makes explicit what was already implicit in the original 1982 edition. He openly challenges Holocaust historians to re-examine a "flawed premise" of much of their writings. By unconsciously accepting the flawed premise that “if the Nazis…didn't attach much meaning to it, then it wasn't significant,” Rashke argues, historians have distorted the nature of the Jewish response to the Final Solution. Most historians have erroneously described the Jews "as a flock of sheep on the road to the slaughter," he insists, "causing intense suffering and irreparable damage to the Jewish people." He offers his book as an antidote. The story of the escape from Sobibor and those who survived, he argues, "represents the buried stories of hundreds of thousands of people who fought and died in ghettos no one had ever heard of; who tried to escape down the road to the camps but They never made it." ; who fought inside the camps but were still killed; who managed to escape only to be recaptured and executed... who formed or joined partisan groups from the Vilna Woods to the Owl Forest and who never saw liberation...." I I find Rashke's argument very convincing and I would like to encourage others who teach about the Holocaust to join me in re-examining how we present to our students the Jewish response to the Final Solution. Rashke's book provided the basis for a film of the same title that was broadcast for the first appeared on television in 1987 and is still available on videocassette, which tells the story of the planning and successful execution of a mass escape from one of Operation Reinhard's three major death camps, Sobibor, Poland. Eastern, has been widely used by teachers to illustrate Jewish resistance to the Final Solution. Rashke's book, however, goes far beyond what is depicted in the film. In fact, Rashke notes in his "New Aftermath," a sequel to the film original, provisionally subtitled "The Aftermath", had already been scripted, when its sponsor, the Chrysler Corporation, decided not to proceed with the project due to a lawsuit brought by a section of the Ukrainian Congress Committee. Without passing any judgment on the adequacy or merit of the cause, I think it is a shame for those of us who teach about the Holocaust that the follow-up was never made..