Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History
Author:   Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138599437


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
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Author:   Selma Leydesdorff (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781138599437


ISBN 10:   1138599433
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"List of illustrations Acknowledgements Chronology: Important Dates in the Life of Aleksandr (""Sasha"") Aronowitz Pechersky Introduction Chapter 1: Jews in a Post-Revolutionary World: Integration and Exclusion Chapter 2: A Trajectory of Misery: The Army and Imprisonment Chapter 3: Sobibor Through the Eyes of Survivors Chapter 4: Resist and Tell the World Chapter 5: After the Escape: Life with the Partisans and the Red Army Chapter 6: Return to Rostov: Spreading the Word About Sobibor Chapter 7: Traumatized and Alone in Front of ""Justice"" Conclusion: To Speak and to Be Silenced Bibliography Index"

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"""It has taken a long time for Sasha Pechersky, the unsung hero of the 1943 revolt in the Sobibor death camp, to find the right voice to tell his story. Selma Leydesdorff’s sad and tragic tale describes the evil he overcame and the injustice that defeated him ‘in a world that remained dark.’ Her love of truth and her passion for history, compelled by her own family’s long-ago loss, highlights the quick success and slow demise of this Russian Jew’s remarkable courage and idealism."" Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA"


It has taken a long time for Sasha Pechersky, the unsung hero of the 1943 revolt in the Sobibor death camp, to find the right voice to tell his story. Selma Leydesdorff's sad and tragic tale describes the evil he overcame and the injustice that defeated him `in a world that remained dark.' Her love of truth and her passion for history, compelled by her own family's long-ago loss, highlights the quick success and slow demise of this Russian Jew's remarkable courage and idealism. Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA


Author Information

Selma Leydesdorff is a professor emerita of oral history and culture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her publications include We Lived with Dignity: The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam 1900–1940 (1998), Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak (2011), and The Tapestry of Memory, Testimony and Evidence in Life-Story Narratives (2013, co-edited with Nanci Adler).

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