getting out of bed and instantly aged". Alexander Pechersky died on 19 January 1990 and was buried at the Northern cemetery in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. In 2009, Pechersky's daughter, granddaughter and two great-grandsons were living in Rostov-on-Don. Remembrance Alexander Pechersky features prominently in a Dutch-Soviet documentary Revolt in Sobibor (1989) by director Pavel Kogan. An award-winning documentary about the escape was made by Claude Lanzmann, entitled Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 heures. The revolt was also dramatized in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, in which Rutger Hauer received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Television) for his portrayal of Pechersky. Pechersky did not attend the premiere of the film; his widow later stated that the Soviet government denied him permission to travel to the United States. In 2007, 17 years after his death, a small memorial plaque was placed on the side of the building where he lived in Rostov-on-Don. One of the schools of Rostov-on-Don, school 52 was named after him and a monument near the school was erected in 2018. The New England Holocaust Memorial bears his name alongside a quote. Streets have been named in his honor in Safed, Israel, and in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don, Russia. A stone memorial was erected in Tel Aviv more recently. In 2013, Alexander Pechersky was posthumously awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In January 2016, he was posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage by decree of Vladimir Putin. Konstantin Khabensky directed and played the role of Pechersky in the 2018 film Sobibor. See also Sobibor extermination camp German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war References External links Revolt in Sobibor (1989/2011) - Dutch-Russian award-winning documentary Yad Vashem article Photo of Luca's shirt held by Pechersky's daughter 1909 births 1990 deaths People from Kremenchuk People from Kremenchugsky Uyezd Jews from the Russian Empire Ukrainian Jews Gulag detainees Jewish escapees from Nazi concentration camps Jewish partisans Prisoners and detainees of the Soviet Union Soviet Jews in the military Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust Sobibor extermination camp survivors Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet partisans Belarusian partisans Soviet prisoners of war Soviet military personnel of World War II from Ukraine World War II prisoners of war held by Germany