Selma Leydesdorff

Sasha Pechersky (eBook, ePUB)

Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351627184
• Artikelnr.: 48792877

Autorenporträt

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