sentences:  According to Yitzhak Arad, this was the highest number of SS officers killed in a single revolt.Around 300 inmates escaped (out of 600 in the main camp), but 100 were recaptured and shot.On 7 October 1944, 300 Jewish members, mostly Greek or Hungarian, of the "Sonderkommando" at Auschwitz learned they were about to be killed, and staged an uprising, blowing up crematorium IV.