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Revision as of 10:01, 8 December 2006
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 Josef Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow.
Among the victims were:
- Peretz Markish
- David Bergelson
- Itzik Fefer
- Leib Kwitko
- David Hofstein
- Der Nister
- Benjamin Zuskin
- Solomon Lozovsky
- Boris Shimeliovich
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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