Relates the intriguing conspiracy case and death of Karen Silkwood, a union activist deliberately contaminated with plutonium who subsequently died in a car accident en route to delivering corporate documents to a reporter

The Killing of Karen Silkwood

Rashke, Richard

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Poignant in its honesty and grim in its details, Escape from Sobibor offers stunning proof of resistance--in this case successful--by victims of the Holocaust. The smallest of the extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany during World War II, Sobibor was where now-retired auto worker John Demjanjuk has been accused of working as a prison guard. Sobibor also was the scene of the war's biggest prisoner escape. Richard Rashke's interviews with eighteen of those who survived provide the foundation for this volume. He also draws on books, articles, and diaries to make vivid the camp, the uprising, and the escape. In the afterword, Rashke relates how the Polish government in October 1993, observed the fiftieth anniversary of the escape and how it has beautified the site since a film based on his book appeared on Polish television.

Escape from Sobibor

History

Europe

University of Illinois Press

A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor

Military

Avon/Books

A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor

Escape from Sobibor: The Heroic Story of the Jews Who Escaped from a Nazi Death Camp

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

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Capitol Hill in Black and White

PARKER, ROBERT

Americas

Dodd, Mead, Co.

Recounts Pat Bennett's seventeen-year search for her runaway husband, her personal growth during those years, and her ultimate court confrontation

Runaway Father

BERKLEY

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The killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

Business & Money

Economics

SPHERE BOOKS LIMITED (ENGLAND)

On October 14, 1943, 600 Jews imprisoned in Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war. In this edition of Escape from Sobibor, fully updated in 2012, Richard Rashke tells their stories, based on his interviews with 18 of the survivors. It vividly describes the biggest prisoner escape of World War II. A story of unimaginable cruelty. A story of courage and a fierce desire to live and to tell the world what truly went on behind those barbed wire fences.

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Karen Silkwood, an employee of the Kerr-McGee plutonium processing plant, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents to a newspaper reporter in 1974. Silkwood was a union activist concerned about health and safety issues at the plant, and her death at age twenty-eight was considered by many to be highly suspicious. Was it Kerr-McGee's revenge on a troublesome whistle-blower? Or was it part of a much larger conspiracy reaching from the Atomic Energy Commission to the FBI and the CIA?
Richard Rashke leads us through the myriad of charges and countercharges, theories and facts, and reaches conclusions based solely on the evidence in hand. Originally published in 1981, his book offers a vivid, edgy picture of the tensions that racked this country in the 1970s. However, the volume is not only an important historical document. Complex, fascinating characters populate this compelling insider's view of the nuclear industry. The issues it explores―whistle-blowers, worker safety, the environment, and nuclear vulnerability―have not lost relevance today, twenty-six years after Silkwood's white Honda Civic was found trapped in a concrete culvert near Oklahoma City.
For this second edition, Rashke has added a Preface and three short chapters that explore what has been learned about Silkwood since the book's original publication, explain what happened to the various actors in the drama, and discuss the long-term effects of the events around Silkwood's death.

The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

Business Culture

ILR PRESS

Dear Esther is a play which premiered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in January l998. It is based on the life of Esther Raab, a character in Richard Rashke's book, Escape From Sobibor.

Dear Esther

Dramas & Plays

Dear Esther Productions

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The Killing of Karen Silkwood

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Escape from Sobibor

The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

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