Alexander Pechersky
Alexander Pechersky · Heroes of Israel
Red Army officer who planned and led the Sobibor uprising of 14 October 1943 — the most successful revolt in a Nazi death camp.
22 February 1909, Kremenchuk, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 19 January 1990, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Sobibor, Poland & Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Alexander Pechersky is recognized among Israeli contributors to Heroes of Israel — Red Army officer who planned and led the Sobibor uprising of 14 October 1943 — the most successful revolt in a Nazi death camp.
A Soviet Jewish officer taken prisoner in 1941, Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky arrived at Sobibor in September 1943 and, within three weeks, had planned an uprising with the camp's underground leader Leon Feldhendler. On 14 October the prisoners killed eleven SS men one by one, seized what weapons they could and stormed the fence: about three hundred got out, and some fifty survived the war. Sobibor was closed and razed by the Germans immediately after.
Pechersky fought on with the partisans and the Red Army; back in the Soviet Union he was persecuted during the anti-Jewish campaigns and lived his last decades in obscurity in Rostov, the man who had brought a death camp down.
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Red Army officer who planned and led the Sobibor uprising of 14 October 1943 — the most successful revolt in a Nazi death camp.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pechersky
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