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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Alexander Pechersky

1909 - 1990

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Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Аро́нович Пече́рский; 22 February 1909 – 19 January 1990) was one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II, which occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943. In 1948, Pechersky was arrested by the Soviet authorities along with his brother during the countrywide Rootless cosmopolitan campaign against Jews suspected of pro-Western leanings but released later due in part to mounting international pressure. Pechersky was prevented by the Soviet government from leaving the country to testify in international trials related to Sobibor, including the Eichmann Trial in Israel; foreign investigators were only allowed to collect his testimony under KGB supervision. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Pechersky has received more than 450,650 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Pechersky is the 159th most popular social activist (up from 4,460th in 2019), the 171st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 156th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Alexander Pechersky ranks 159 out of 538. Before him are Emilie Schindler, Beppe Grillo, Musa al-Sadr, Manuela Sáenz, Ilya Ulyanov, and Abbé Pierre. After him are René Just Haüy, Balthasar Gérard, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Bukovsky, Rigoberta Menchú, and Jan Karski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Alexander Pechersky ranks 52. Before him are Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia, Vicente Feola, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Hideo Sakai, James Mason, and Gunnar Björnstrand. After him are Art Tatum, Alain Poher, Otto Kumm, Albert R. Broccoli, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, and Nikolay Bogolyubov. Among people deceased in 1990, Alexander Pechersky ranks 48. Before him are Patrick White, Vasili Kuznetsov, Jill Ireland, Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Art Blakey, and Ugo Tognazzi. After him are Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Reinaldo Arenas, Yiannis Ritsos, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Philippe Soupault, and Sammy Davis Jr..

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Pechersky ranks 171 out of 1,083. Before him are Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Batitsky (1910), Valentina Matviyenko (1949), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Ivan Chernyakhovsky (1906), and Marina Mniszech (1588). After him are Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Tamara Press (1937), Alexander Rutskoy (1947), and Mstislav II of Kiev (1200).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Ukraine

Among social activists born in Ukraine, Alexander Pechersky ranks 4. Before him are Simon Wiesenthal (1908), Fanny Kaplan (1890), and Georgy Gapon (1870). After him are Sergei Kovalev (1930), David Riazanov (1870), Olga Lepeshinskaya (1916), Anna Sharyhina (1978), and Ihor Kostenko (1991).

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