On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing a war that will devastate Europe. Within weeks, Poland is crushed between German and Soviet forces, and a brutal occupation begins—marked by terror, mass executions, forced labour, and the systematic destruction of an entire society.

Among those caught in this machinery of persecution is Chaim Engel, a young Polish Jew whose life is shaped by war, loss, and survival. Deported to the Sobibor extermination camp, he witnesses one of the darkest chapters of the Holocaust—where hundreds of thousands are murdered in secrecy.

But Sobibor is also the site of one of the most extraordinary acts of resistance. In October 1943, prisoners launch a daring revolt against their captors. Armed with courage and desperation, they strike back.

This is the story of Chaim Engel—his survival, the Sobibor uprising, and the fight to escape one of history’s deadliest killing centres.