Research Catalog

Title

Sasha Pechersky : Holocaust hero, Sobibor resistance leader, and hostage of history / Selma Leydesdorff.

Author

Leydesdorff, Selma

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xiii, 237 pages; 25 cm

Series Statement

Memory and Narrative

Uniform Title

Memory and narrative.

Subject

• Pecherskiĭ, Aleksandr Aronovich, 1909-1990
• Sobibór (Concentration camp)
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Poland > Sobibór
• Holocaust survivors > Soviet Union > Biography
• Collective memory > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1945-1991

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: How the Project Started -- The Unknown Camps in Eastern Poland -- Political and Academic Silence -- The Beginning of a Life Story in Moscow (October 2012) -- Michael Lev and Other Friends of Pechersky in Israel -- Washington (February 2013): Many Letters -- Who Was This Man? -- Minsk (May 2013) -- I Tried to Hear His Voice, to Understand His Language and His Sadness -- And After the Revolt? Rostov-on-Don -- Reshaping Narratives, Changing Memories -- 1. Jews in a Post-Revolutionary World: Integration and Exclusion -- Crossing Borders, Looking at the Region -- The Camps of Operation Reinhard and the History of Pechersky -- Kremenchuk: Family Background and the Memory of Persecution -- A Dangerous Trek Through Chaotic Territory -- Life in a New Town: Rostov-on-Don -- War Comes to Rostov-on-Don -- 2. A Trajectory of Misery: The Army and Imprisonment -- The War, 1941 -- Not a Step Back.' Order 270 -- Pechersky's Trajectory: Vyazma, Borisov, Minsk, Stalag 352 -- Changing Times: The Need for Slave Labor, Stalingrad, and the Germans Need to Eat -- The Need for Labor Versus the Wish to Kill All Jews -- To Be Caught as a Jew -- To Escape and to Resist -- The Minsk Ghetto -- The Prison at Shirokaya Street -- 3. Sobibor Through the Eyes of Survivors -- The Prisms of the Narrative -- Eighty Russian Soldiers and a German Miscalculation -- An Unimaginable Crime -- The Sobibor Facility: Accounts of a Death Factory -- Who Speaks? First-person and Other Narratives -- The Camp: A Place of Violence and Death -- And Then -- A Prisoner in Sobibor -- The Other Side: Experienced Perpetrators -- Not Only Jews, But Mostly Jewish Victims: Mythologies -- Psychological Survival and the Russian Soldiers -- Human Bonding and Hope for a Better World -- The Tide Turns -- 4. Resist and Tell the World -- Partisans and Resistance in Poland and Byelorussia -- The Russians -- Experienced Fighters Arrive -- Not Slaughtered Like Sheep -- Resistance in Sobibor: To Die With Honor -- Learning to Fight and to Kill -- Organizing an Escape -- Not Mass Escape but Revolt -- Myth and Reality in Stories about the Revolt -- Shame and Guilt in Testimonies -- 5. After the Escape: Life With the Partisans and the Red Army -- Memories of Survival after the Escape -- Forever Traumatized -- Further to the East, to the Territory Controlled by the Red Army -- Communist Policies in Byelorussia -- Partisans Under the Control of Moscow -- Life as a Partisan -- A Culture of Mistrust -- The Schors Battalion -- Joining the Red Army -- Back in Rostov-on-Don after the War -- 6. Return to Rostov: Spreading the Word About Sobibor -- There Were No Jews, Only Citizens -- Changing Times and the Rise of Anti-Semitism -- The Crackdown on Jewish Culture -- Coping with Stalinist Anti-Semitism in Rostov-on-Don -- To Reconnect With the Other Survivors -- The Post-War Trials and the Collective Punishment -- The Emergence of the Voice of the Survivor and Oral History -- 7. Traumatized and Alone in Front of "Justice" -- Alone, Isolated, and Bitter -- The Trial and the Story -- A Hostage of an Unwanted History -- Always Alone: Bitterness, Depression, and Withdrawal from the World -- Getting Lost in a Hostile World; Unrecognized Trauma -- To Find the Others and to Remember -- Depression and No Freedom -- Conclusion: To Speak and to Be Silenced -- Competing Victims and Historical Clarity -- Changing Perspectives -- Who Was Aleksandr Pechersky?.

Call Number

JFE 17-9220

ISBN

• 9781412865258
• 1412865255

LCCN

2017022361

OCLC

987070513

Author

Leydesdorff, Selma, author.

Title

Sasha Pechersky : Holocaust hero, Sobibor resistance leader, and hostage of history / Selma Leydesdorff.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Memory and Narrative

Memory and narrative.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-9220