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On August 12,1952, fifteen Yiddish artists, writers, and poets were falsely charged with capital offenses. Thirteen of them were murdered by Joseph Stalin and his executioners in the Lubvanka Prison basement in Moscow, Russia. This night of massacre is known as the '''Night of the Murdered Poets''' ({{lang-ru|Ночь казнённых поэтов}}) refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent [[Yiddish]] [[writer]]s, [[poet]]s, [[artist]]s, [[musician]]s and [[actor]]s 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.<ref>[[Stéphane Courtois]], ''[[The Black Book of Communism|The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression]]'', [[Harvard University Press]], 1999, p. 248. ISBN 0-674-07608-7</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:43, 5 February 2010
Overview
On August 12,1952, fifteen Yiddish artists, writers, and poets were falsely charged with capital offenses. Thirteen of them were murdered by Joseph Stalin and his executioners in the Lubvanka Prison basement in Moscow, Russia. This night of massacre is known as the Night of the Murdered Poets (Template:Lang-ru) 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
Notes
- ^ Stéphane Courtois, The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 248. ISBN 0-674-07608-7
See also
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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