Author: Selma Leydesdorff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351627198
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in memorial cultures between societies in the West and societies in the former Communist world