Escape from Sobibor (1987 TV Movie)

Alan Arkin: Leon Feldhendler

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Quotes 

• Lt. "Sasha" Pechersky : Listen to me! Our day has come! Most of the SS are dead! It's everyone for himself now!

  Leon Feldhendler : Those of you who survive, bear witness! Let the world know what has happened here! God is with you! Now let nothing stop you!

  [escape begins] 

• Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner : I will do anything for revenge, even if I have to die for it.

  Leon Feldhendler : How old are you?

  Stanislaw "Shlomo" Szmajzner : How old do you have to be?

  Leon Feldhendler : You are old enough.

• Leon Feldhendler : When you saw your wife and child at the train station last, who were they with?

  Itzhak Lichtman : They were with all the other women and children, going to the shower.

  Leon Feldhendler : Are you sure?

  Itzhak Lichtman : Yes.

  [Leon remains silent for a long moment] 

  Itzhak Lichtman : What is it?

  Leon Feldhendler : Itzhak, listen to me. This is a death camp. Every day a train comes. All the people, everyone who goes to the showers, is dead. Men, women, children, everyone.

  Itzhak Lichtman : Oh, god!

  [breaks down] 

  Itzhak Lichtman : Oh, no!

  Leon Feldhendler : Itzhak, the fire...

  [indicates a fire in the distance] 

  Leon Feldhendler : The fire is their funeral.

  Itzhak Lichtman : Oh, god!

  [weeping] 

  Itzhak Lichtman : They were my life!

• Leon Feldhendler : Did you know that tomorrow is the beginning of Sukkot?

  Lt. "Sasha" Pechersky : Yes. 'Tis a Holy Day.

  Leon Feldhendler : I forgot. And my father was a rabbi.

  Lt. "Sasha" Pechersky : They kill on Holy Days. Why not the other way around? God will forgive.

  Leon Feldhendler : There are those here who are wondering if we can forgive God.

• Samuel : We talk about escape all the time and we do nothing. Maybe it's true. Maybe there is no chance.

  Leon Feldhendler : No. I still think there is a way. Just not like this. There has to be organization. There has to be patience and some new people who's spirits have not yet been broken.

  Samuel : Yes. I want a chance to escape. To be free or at least a chance to die trying.

  Leon Feldhendler : Better to escape and live. That would be real revenge.

• Luka : Look at the moon, Sasha.

  Leon Feldhendler : Look at the board, Sasha.