The Night of the Murdered Poets

Event· 1948–1952· Moscow (USSR)

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Attested by reliable, concordant sources; no reasonable doubt.

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is dissolved in 1948; its members are arrested. On 12 August 1952, thirteen of them, including Yiddish writers, are executed in Moscow.

Source

Primary source · Partly verified

Archives du Comité antifasciste juif / Records of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

Archives d'État de la Fédération de Russie (GARF) / State Archive of the Russian Federation — 1942–1948

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