Leon feldhendler and alexander pechersky sobibor

The gate opened and we saw what looked like a pretty village,” wrote Toivi Blatt.

Alexander "Sasha" Aronovich Pechersky also known as Oleksandr Aronovych Pecherskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Аронович Печерський), was a Jewish-Soviet officer.

Alexander "Sasha" Aronovich Pechersky also known as Oleksandr Aronovych Pecherskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Аронович Печерський), was a Jewish-Soviet officer.

Under the most adverse conditions, Jewish prisoners initiated resistance and uprisings in some Nazi camps, including the Sobibor killing.

Leon Felhendler (Lejb Felhendler) (1 June – 6 April ) was a Polish resistance fighter known for his role in organizing the prisoner uprising.

Pechersky was a professional soldier, an officer in the Red Army.

The film shares the story of the top-secret Nazi death camp, Sobibor, in Poland where more than , Jews were murdered in its time of.

„Before us stretched out a black road planted with flowers. On the left there was a colourful house, surrounded by impeccably kept lawn, trees and flower beds. We were moving forward, passing signposts and wooden figures of a waiter with a platter and a barber with a razor.

Could this kind of place be a death factory?”

In a clearing fenced with barbed wire, just next to a small railway station located in the middle of the forest, the Germans built one of the worst concentration camps in occupied Europe — from May 1942 to October of the following year they killed over 250,000 Jews from Lublin Voivodeship and Galicia and from different Western European countries, of which the largest group consisted of Jews from the Netherlands.

In a few days, on Monday, October 14 it will be the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the uprising in Sobibor.

 

 

 

 

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