Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History by Selma Leydesdorff

Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History

Selma Leydesdorff

252 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognit...

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