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On Pechersky's first day at the camp he wrote, "Should I leave the rest of the prisoners to be tortured and murdered? I rejected this thought."

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Alexander Pechersky was born on February 22nd, 1909 in Kremenchuk which is now modern-day Ukraine. When he was six years old his family moved to Rostov-on-Don. He worked as an electrician at a locomotive factory. After graduating from a University he became an accountant for a school for amateur musicians.

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Alexander Pechersky was forced into the Soviet Red Army with the rank of junior lieutenant when the Germans started to invade Russia. He would soon be promoted to First lieutenant.  In 1942 he was captured by the SS army. When they captured Pechersky, they found out he was Jewish and was sent to a Camp.

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When Pechersky arrived he was put into the "Jewish Cellar" where he would be in complete darkness for 10 days with little food and water. Then he would be transferred to a labor camp on Sheroka Street in Minsk. When he was in the camp he and other planned an escape plan where they would team up with the Partisans to fight the Nazis. On October 14th, 1943 he and others attacked 10 SS soldiers and killed them, then using their weapons they fought off other soldiers and freed half of the 600 inmates. Then they soon dismantled the camp and Pechersky and his men successfully escaped the camp.

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QuickWrite #1: First They Came for the Jews

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QuickWrite #1: First They Came for the Jews

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The lesson Martin Niemoller is trying to teach is to be an upstander and not a bystander. Since Martin was a bystander when the oppressor came for the other victims, no one stood up for Martin when he was take, "Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me" If Martin was a upstander from the start when people were first being take away, it could of changed a lot of things. In addition, since no one was trying to resist the oppressor, the oppressor kept coming back multiple times to take people. Also the oppressor was taking only certain people at a time, and the other people did not think they were going to be taken away. Martin Niemoller's lesson he is trying to teach the reader is to be an upstander from the start and to not be a bystander.

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Alexander Pechersky was an upstander during the Holocaust. When Pechersky was put into the Sobibor extermination camp, he and other inmates escaped, “Shortly afterward the camp was dismantled. Pechersky and a group of his comrades succeeded in escaping and reaching the Soviet Partisans” (encyclopedia). This quotation demonstrates that Pechersky was an upstander. When Pechersky was in Sobibor camp, he planned a revolt with other inmates They attacked the German soldiers, taking their weapons and 50 inmates escaped Sobibor Camp. The reader of this event is being taught that when things seem unfair and not right is to stand up against the oppressor. It shows the individual is an upstander rather than a bystander. During the Holocaust, Alexander Pechersky was an upstander.

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Peter's burning of the Star of David is an act of resistance. In the beginning after Peter and Anne got rid of the star, Peter goes to the stove and Anne asks what Peter was going to do with it and Peter says, "Burn It" (458). This quotation shows an act of resistance when Peter took the star off. This shows an act of resistance because when Peter was burning the star, he was indicating he was not going to be controlled by the Nazis. This quotation is telling the reader to stand up against something that is not right. This shows Peter's burning of the Star of David is an act of resistance.

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After escaping he would go to Soviet Partisans where he would be safe. He would then rejoin the army where he would be seriously injured in August 1944. After the War, Pechersky returned to Rostov-On-Don where he would become the administrator in an operetta theatre. He would be called a witness for the Trial but the Soviet Government did not allow him to go. On January 19th, 1990 he died from most likely old age and was buried in Rostov-On-Don a memorial was created for what he did.

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Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, And Hostage Of History

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Encyclopedia
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