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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"

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

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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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