Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world
Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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