Night of the Murdered Poets

Many of his contemporaries would later be killed in the Night of the Murdered Poets.

This was after 20 years of vast and savage purges, culminating less than 30 months earlier in "the night of the murdered poets."

The Night of the Murdered Poets.

Many Yiddish writers were arrested and eventually executed in the event known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

In 1956 she participated in a Jewish concert, the first to be allowed by Soviet authorities since the infamous "Night of the Murdered Poets".

One notorious example is the "Night of the Murdered Poets", in which at least thirteen prominent Yiddish writers were executed on August 12, 1952.

Benjamin Zuskin - famous Russian stage and movie actor, murdered 1952 upon Stalin's orders; see Night of the Murdered Poets.

The story "The Twenty-seventh Man", about Yiddish writers killed by Stalin, is an allusion to the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Bergelson, Markish and Hofstein were later executed on Joseph Stalin's orders during the so-called Night of the Murdered Poets, in 1952.

A memorial for the JAC victims was dedicated in Jerusalem in 1977 on the 25th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets.

After trials of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee thirteen members were secretly executed on Stalin's orders in the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Lozovsky was executed on August 12, 1952, together with thirteen other members of Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, an event known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

August 12 - Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, including several writers.

Several of these writers were murdered during a Stalinist purge known as the Night of the Murdered Poets (August 12-13, 1952), including Itzik Fefer and Leib Kvitko.

He also created a neon animation with Shane Baker who recited Peretz Markish's Yiddish poem Brokshtiker (Shards) for the 60-year commemoration of the Night of the Murdered Poets, August, 2012.

London's Zemel Choir and students and faculty from the Peabody Conservatory of Music will perform Cotel's "Night of the Murdered Poets," Stuchefsky's Klesmer Trio, Russian Jewish choral music and violin compositions.

As a prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, he was arrested at a hospital while being treated for nervous exhaustion and later executed on Joseph Stalin's orders in the event known as the Night of the Murdered Poets on August 12, 1952.

Rubenstein, Joshua The Night of the Murdered Poets, originally published in The New Republic, August 25, 1997, later republished as the introduction to Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, May 2001, Yale University Press.

The deaths of these non-Jewish victims facilitated the Soviet Union's postwar efforts to suppress recognition of Babi Yar's place in the history of the Holocaust, especially in the aftermath of the 1952 executions of prominent Jewish intellectuals dubbed the "Night of the Murdered Poets."