PBS producer/director Gary Hochman has traveled the world producing national documentaries on science, history, and Jewish heritage for PBS and NOVA.  He will screen “sneak preview” of his film, Deadly Deception at Sobibor, about how archeologists Yoram Haimi (Israel) and Wojtek Mazurek (Poland) uncover evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a 1943 revolt and mass escape from the WWII Sobibor death camp.

To hide the revolt and their murder of 250,000 Jews, the Nazis erased all trace of the camp.  Now, Haimi, Mazurek, and local Poles excavate a forest to reveal irrefutable evidence, including traces of the walled corridor through which the Nazis herded Jews to the gas chamber…a Star of David, and a small name tag of a murdered child from Amsterdam.  Adding eyewitness testimony is Philip Bialowitz, one of the seven remaining Sobibor survivors.

In addition, Hochman will provide an update on recent finds – an entry ramp to the camp, artifacts found tossed down a well in the area of the revolt, and the discovery of ruins of the gas chambers.