Sasha Pechersky : Holocaust hero, Sobibor resistance leader, and hostage of history
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This is the story of Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky who, on October 14, 1943, led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. It shows the tremendous difference in the memorial cultures between Western and Eastern societies and also how Jews were not passive in the face of German violence. Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, ...
Auteur
Leydesdorff, Selma,
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies