Night of the Murdered Poets
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The Night of the Murdered Poets (Russian: Ночь казнённых поэтов) refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. Ten "engineer saboteurs" from the Stalin automobile factory, all Jewish, were also executed the same night.[1]
Among the victims were:
- Peretz Markish
- David Bergelson
- Itzik Fefer
- Leib Kwitko
- David Hofstein
- Benjamin Zuskin
- Solomon Lozovsky
- Boris Shimeliovich
[edit] Notes
- ^ Stéphane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 248. ISBN 0-674-07608-7
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- 50 Years After The Night of the Murdered Poets By Shai Franklin
- 50th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets National Conference on Soviet Jewry (NCSJ) August 12, 2002, Letter from President Bush, links
- Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (introduction) by Joshua Rubenstein
- Seven-fold Betrayal: The Murder of Soviet Yiddish by Joseph Sherman
- Unknown History, Unheroic Martyrs by Jonathan Tobin
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