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Bauer came back early from Chełm, discovered that SS-Scharführer Rudolf Beckmann had been assassinated and began shooting at the prisoners. The sound of the gunfire prompted Alexander Pechersky to begin the revolt earlier than planned. Pechersky screamed the code-words: "Hurrah, the revolt has begun!"
Rudolf Beckmann. Rudolf Beckmann (20 February 1910 [1] [2] – 14 October 1943) was a German SS-Oberscharführer in the Sobibor extermination camp. He was stabbed to death during the uprising in Sobibor by inmates. Beckmann was a member of the Nazi Party (member 305,721) and the Schutzstaffel. Nothing is known about his early life.
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Aug 14, 2002 · (Beckmann was the third SS man killed - he was attacked by Leon Feldhendler, Chaim Engel and the Kapo Pozyckis with a knife. Though they attempted to lure Beckman to the storeroom for a new leather coat and though he at first appeared to be going to the storeroom, he abruptly turned around and went to his office.
A prisoner (I cannot recall who, but I believe it was Pechersky) spent the entire hour of the whack-a-SS-man phase of the revolt trying to lure out Frenzel, as he was an important kill, but failed. Then, the duo assigned to kill Rudolf Beckmann were two brothers, both of whom were Kapos.
Bauer came back early from Chełm, discovered that SS-Scharführer Rudolf Beckmann had been assassinated, and began shooting at the Jewish prisoners. The sound of the gunfire prompted Alexander Pechersky to begin the revolt earlier than planned. Pechersky screamed the preplanned code-words: "Hurrah, the revolt has begun!"
Oct 22, 2020 · Indeed, when Pechersky returned to the Soviet Union, he found himself subject to a double stigma: Pechersky and POWs like him were looked down upon and treated poorly because they served as a shameful living reminder of the fecklessness of the Red Army’s—and by extension Stalin’s—response to the German assault in the first stages of the ...
Admitting to being Jewish, Pechersky was transferred first to an SS-run Jewish slave labour camp, and then on to Sobibor. This military boost to the camp’s numbers was just what was needed if an escape was to stand any chance of being successful. Pechersky was put in charge of the committee, with Feldhendler being named his second-in-command.
