SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Alexander Pechersky

1909 - 1990

Alexander Pechersky

Alexander "Sasha" Aronovich Pechersky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Аро́нович Пече́рский; 22 February 1909 – 19 January 1990), also known as Oleksandr Aronovych Pecherskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Аронович Печерський), was a Jewish-Soviet officer. He is 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Pechersky is the 167th most popular social activist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 171st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Alexander Pechersky ranks 167 out of 840. Before him are Amal Clooney, David Lane, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Gangubai Kothewali, Frederick Douglass, and Malala Yousafzai. After him are Rigoberta Menchú, Leila Khaled, Meng Huo, Gaius Julius Civilis, Gerda Christian, and Joe Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Alexander Pechersky ranks 52. Before him are Yiannis Ritsos, László Rajk, Vicente Feola, Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Marguerite Perey, and Otto Kumm. After him are Norberto Bobbio, Adib Shishakli, Matt Busby, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, William M. Branham, and Rudolf Brandt. Among people deceased in 1990, Alexander Pechersky ranks 52. Before him are Capucine, Viktor Tsoi, Ivan Serov, Aaron Copland, John Stewart Bell, and Robert Noyce. After him are Reinaldo Arenas, Delphine Seyrig, Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Jill Ireland, and Arthur Samuel.

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Yiannis Ritsos
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1909 - 1990
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 46
László Rajk
POLITICIAN
1909 - 1949
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 47
Vicente Feola
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1909 - 1975
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 48
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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1909 - 1966
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 49
Marguerite Perey
PHYSICIST
1909 - 1975
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 50
Otto Kumm
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1909 - 2004
HPI: 66.50
Rank: 51
Alexander Pechersky
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1909 - 1990
HPI: 66.48
Rank: 52
Norberto Bobbio
PHILOSOPHER
1909 - 2004
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 53
Adib Shishakli
POLITICIAN
1909 - 1964
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 54
Matt Busby
COACH
1909 - 1994
HPI: 66.31
Rank: 55
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche
BUSINESSPERSON
1909 - 1998
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 56
William M. Branham
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1909 - 1965
HPI: 66.12
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Rudolf Brandt
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1909 - 1948
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