Night of the Murdered Poets
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The Night of the Murdered Poets occurred on 12 August 1952, and it involved the execution of 13 Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow. Arrests were made in September 1948 and June 1949, with al
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Itzik Feffer
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Itzik Feffer, also Fefer was a Soviet Yiddish poet executed on the Night of the Murdered Poets during Joseph Stalin's late purges.
Night of the Murdered Poets
…their writing and also using radio broadcasts from Russia to different countries. In 1943, Mikhoels and the vice-chairman of the Anti-Fascist Committee, Itzik Fefer, traveled to the U.S. and England to help raise money. Once the German invasion began and Russian Jewish culture was destroyed by the invading Nazi…
Itzik Fefer in the 1920s
Itzik Feffer (left), Albert Einstein and Solomon Mikhoels in the United States in 1943.