ABSTRACT
Aleksandr Pechersky's self-assigned duty was to act as a witness of the Nazi extermination of the Jews, but also to recount the successful Jewish insurrection in Sobibor and thereby to question the stereotype of Jewish non-resistance. A first step in creating a history of Sobibor came in 1945, when a regional publishing house in Rostov-on-Don published "The Uprising in the Sobibor Camp", a report and an autobiographical narrative about how Pechersky remembered his years during the war, with the revolt at the center of the story. In the straight grand narrative of the Great Patriotic War, Pechersky repeatedly told the story of the revolt of Sobior. Pechersky certainly had moments when his role was recognized, such as when the famous author Ilya Ehrenburg invited him to come live in Moscow and work with him on The Black Book. He had never wanted to leave Rostov-on-Don permanently, and he had doubts about friends who did leave for Israel and United States.
