Memoirs of Aleksandr Pecherski, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine in 1909, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Smolensk and Minsk, as the head of the underground in Sobibor camp, and serving with the partisans in Belarus

Memoirs of Aleksandr Pecherski, born in Kremenchug, Ukraine in 1909, regarding his experiences in POW camps in Smolensk and Minsk, as the head of the underground in Sobibor camp, and serving with the partisans in Belarus The outbreak of war; fighting and capture; life in a POW camp in Smolensk; life in the Lesnoy Lager POW camp in Minsk in 1942; detention in a dark cellar; transfer to a camp for Jews in Minsk; life in the camp; unsuccessful attempt to escape with a group of Jews; ar...