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The afterlife : Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp : his story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate / by David Bezmozgis.

Publication

Format: Online resource
Author/Creator: Bezmozgis, David, 1973-
Published: New York, NY : Tablet, 2020
Locale: Poland
Sobibór
Soviet Union
Language: English
External Link: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/sasha-pechersky-sobibor-russian-jews-david-bezmozgis

Physical Description: 1 online resource
Notes: Article in: Tablet magazine online (October 14, 2020).
Subjects: Concentration camp inmates--Biography.
Concentration camp escapes--Poland--Sobibór.
Jewish soldiers--Soviet Union--Biography.
Holocaust survivors--Soviet Union--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
Historiography--Soviet Union.
Antisemitism--Soviet Union.
Pecherskiĭ, Aleksandr Aronovich,--1909-1990.
Sobibór (Concentration camp)--Uprising, 1943.
Soviet Union.--Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡--Biography.
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