Sobibor Interviews 1983-1984, interview 02, Alexander 'Sasja' Pechersky

Interview with Alexander 'Sasja' Pechersky (Kremenchuk, 22 February 1909). Pechersky was a lieutenant in the Red Army, was taken prisoner in the autumn of 1941. When a medical examination revealed he was Jewish, he was transported to Sobibor on 22 September 1943. Over a period of three weeks he drew up a detailed plan to escape from the camp with all the prisoners. About his captivity and his part in the uprising he said: 'It is not just a memory, I live it'.

Before the war Alexander Pechersky was an organization expert with a great love of the theatre and music. He was married and had a daughter when he enlisted in the army. In January 1990 he died in his hometown of Rostov-on-Don.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-28g-f6tb
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-kwen-x7
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:50480
Provenance
Creator Jules Schelvis; NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Contributor Dunya Breur
Publication Year 2012
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Representation
Language Dutch; Flemish
Resource Type Dataset
Format video/mp4; MP4
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage Sobibor; Poland; Czech Republic