I have just watched Son of Saul and was wondering if there exists any number of how many people that escaped concentration camps? How did they manage to escape? Where there riots like the one in the movie?
I was in Auschwitz a few months ago. As far as i can remember there were maybe a dozen people who made it out alive, the most famous one being Witold pilecki. Some people in the surrounding villages helped the escaped prisoners by offering them shelter (some even helped the ones still being imprisoned, by smuggling in food etc...). Every time someone escaped all inmates had to stand in formation untill the missing inmates were found or shot (this could go for hours and anybody who moved was shot immedietly).
There weren't a lot of revolts. Many prisoners indirectly resisted by hiding art, poetry, diaries, etc.... Guards were rarely assaulted. There was one major uprising in September 1944. Apart from that there were a few other attemps of uprisings, but they were either discovered early or swiftly crushed. In September 1944 the soviets were about to reach Auschwitz and the Nazis tried to kill as many people as possible in the gas chambers. The ones who they couldn't kill in time were sent in death marches later to bring them somewhere else. The members of the Sonderkommando knew at least partially about this plan and begann smuggling weapons and ammunition into the camp. On 7th September they set 2 crematoriums ablaze (1 was destroyed the other one damaged if i remember correctly). Some hundred inmates escaped, but almost all of them were shot or killed. They killed several SS men and wounded another few (once again im not sure anymore, but i think our tour guide mentioned 6 or 7 dead SS men). In the end everyone who took Part in the uprising was killed.
Now you might ask why there wasn't more resistance: there are multiple reasons.
https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-final-solution/auschwitz-birkenau/resistance/
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/sonderevolt.html