1st Edition
Sasha Pechersky Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History
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
Biography
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).
"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
