Alexander Pechersky

Military Person

1909 – 1990

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Who was Alexander Pechersky?

Alexander Aronovich Pechersky was the chief organizer and leader of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; this occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.

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Born
Feb 22, 1909
Kremenchuk
Spouses
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • Soviet Union
Died
Jan 19, 1990
Rostov-on-Don

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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