Philip Bialowitz

Philip Bialowitz (December 25, 1925 in Izbica – August 6, 2016)[1] was a Polish Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter.

Bialowitz was transported to Sobibor in April 1943 and quickly heard that his sisters and niece had been murdered in the gas chambers there.

Bialowitz served as the messenger, telling SS officers that they had boots and leather coats for them.

Bialowitz recalled jumping over the barbed wire to run towards German officers quarters in order to cut off the electricity.

They eventually found shelter with a Catholic couple named Michał and Maria Mazurek, who hid them in their barn until the Red Army arrived.