Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History
by
Selma Leydesdorff
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
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 recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia....