{"product_id":"sasha-pechersky-holocaust-hero-sobibor-resistance-leader-and-hostage-of-history-9781138599437","title":"Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, was considered suspect by the Russian government simply because he had been imprisoned. In this volume, Selma Leydesdorff describes the official silence in the Eastern Bloc about Pechersky's role in the Sobibor escape and how an effort was made to recognize his actions. The narrative is based on eyewitness accounts from people in Pechersky's life and a discussion of the mechanism of memory, mixing written sources with varied recollections and assessing the collisions of collective memory held by the East and the West. Specifically, this book critiques the ideological refusal of many societies to acknowledge the suffering of Jews at Sobibor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOffering fascinating insights into a crucial period of history, emphasizing that Jews were not passive in the face of German violence, and exploring the history of the Jews who fell victim to Stalinism after surviving Nazism, this is valuable reading for students and scholars of the Holocaust and the position of Jews under Communism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Selma Leydesdorff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138599437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelma Leydesdorff \u003c\/strong\u003eis a professor emerita of oral history and culture at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eWe Lived\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ewith Dignity: The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam 1900-1940 \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eSurviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), and \u003ci\u003eThe Tapestry of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMemory, Testimony and Evidence in Life-Story Narratives \u003c\/i\u003e(2013, co-edited with Nanci Adler).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44031989317747,"sku":"9.78114E+12","price":96.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f633fbe6-9988-4115-93ee-4d52889265b7.jpg?v=1761483911","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/sasha-pechersky-holocaust-hero-sobibor-resistance-leader-and-hostage-of-history-9781138599437","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}