The exhibition tells about the uprising in the Sobibor death camp and the decisive role of Soviet prisoners of war in the formation of the anti-fascist underground during the Great Patriotic War. A successful uprising of the prisoners took place on October 14, 1943. Alexander Pechersky managed to gather around him hundreds of prisoners from different European countries, who spoke different languages.

Deputy Director of the Victory Museum Fyodor Smuglin, Chairman of the Board of the Alexander Pechersky Foundation Ilya Vasiliev, Executive Director of the Russian Military Historical Society Vladislav Kononov, Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation, member of the Russian Historical Society Konstantin Mogilevsky, Director of the Russian State Archive socio-political history Andrey Sorokin, director of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuriy Petrov and creative film producer of "Sobibor" Alexander Zvyagintsev.

Visitors can see about 100 priceless exhibits - photographs, letters, books from Sobibor's personal archive of heroes, including a unique album about this death camp and the organization of an uprising in it. Materials for the album were collected in the post-war years by Alexander Pechersky himself. The Victory Museum presents personal items of prisoners of concentration camps and partisans, military uniforms and documents of those years at the exhibition. Among the exhibits there is also a special relic - a shirt that was on Pechersky on the day of the uprising. It is known that it was presented to him by a Dutch girl named Luke. The shirt belonged to her father, and Luke asked Pechersky to wear it always with the words that it would bring him luck. The girl herself disappeared during the uprising, her fate and real name are unknown to this day.

The exhibition will last until June 11.

On May 11, the Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the Jewish community of Russia on the Day of Salvation and Liberation (26 Iyar), noting the role of this holiday in opposing anti-semitism. A congratulatory telegram is posted on the Kremlin website. Day of salvation and liberation, dedicated to the victory over fascism, is celebrated in many countries of the world.

 Reference about the activities of The Russian Military Historical Society