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Philip Bialowitz
August 6, 2016
Polish-American Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter
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Philip Bialowitz was an American jeweler of Polish-Jewish origins. He was one of the 47 survivors of the Sobibór extermination camp in what is now Poland and took an active part in the uprising there on October 14, 1943. According to Jules Schelvis, this was the only way he survived the Holocaust. He was a witness for the Sobibor trials in the 1960s and 1970s and in the 2010 trial of John Demjanjuk, and advocated for a new Sobibór memorial in 2013. At the time of his death, Bialowitz was considered the last remaining Jew of Polish origin who was involved in the Sobibór uprising itself and survived it.
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- Anniversary · August 6
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