[b]Richard L. Rashke[/b] (born 1936) is an American journalist, teacher and author, who has written non-fiction books, as well as plays and screenplays. He is especially known for his history, [i]Escape from Sobibor[/i], first published in 1982, an account of the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor in German-occupied Poland. The book was adapted as a 1987 TV movie by the same name, starring Rutger Hauer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rashke