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Alexander was born on February 22, 1909 and died on January 19 1990.

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This is a song about the resistance.

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Skillet - "The Resistance" [Official Lyric Video]

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Alexander was a brave man and he led a successful prison 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.

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His rank was a captain and he has won 2 medals for 2 successful fights over German troops. He fought the entire world war and his spouse was Olga Kotova and he had an unknown number of kids. The last time he was refused permission to exit the country and testify was in 1987, for a trial in Poland. He did this because he can't leave the country to let people die, and that is what a resistor is.

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In 1948, Pechersky was arrested by the Soviet authorities along with his brother during the countrywide Rootless cosmopolitan campaign against Jews suspected of pro-Western leanings but released later due in part to mounting international pressure. Pechersky was prevented by the Soviet government from leaving the country to testify in international trials related to Sobibor, including the Eichmann Trial in Israel; foreign investigators were only allowed to collect his testimony under KGB supervision.

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Before the war started Alexander lived in the Russian Empire which is now called Ukraine. Later on he moved to Rostov-on-Don where he there decided to work on being a electrician at a locomotive repair factory.

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Alexander Pechersky features prominently in a Dutch-Soviet documentary Revolt in Sobibor (1989) by director Pavel Kogan. An award-winning documentary about the escape was made by Claude Lanzmann, entitled Sobibor, 14 October 1943, 16 heures. The revolt was also dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, in which Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for his portrayal of Pechersky. Pechersky did not attend the premiere of the film; his widow later stated that the Soviet government denied him permission to travel to the United States.

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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/sasha-pechersky-sobibor-russian-jews-david-bezmozgis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pechersky

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/sasha-pechersky-sobibor-russian-jews-david-bezmozgis