John Demjanjuk is due to stand trial in Germany accused of helping to murder more than 27,000 Jews at the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in occupied Poland. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg returns to the site of the camp with one man who survived its horrors.
In the Jewish cemetery in the town of Izbica, 84-year-old Philip Bialowitz shows a battered gravestone among a tangle of bushes.
“This is the place where I was shot,” he tells me. “I was brought here with a group of people and we were shot with machine-guns.”
The Nazis murdered 4,000 Jews in the cemetery. Philip’s mother was killed here. But her son had a remarkable escape. Lined up with other Jewish prisoners by the side of a freshly dug grave, he jumped in as soon as the bullets started to fly.
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