Vasily Grossman
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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University,
Photo of Grossman published in Ogonyok (1941)
Grossman with the Red Army in Schwerin, Germany, 1945
Memorial plaque in Donetsk where Grossman worked in the early 1930s.
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry or simply The Black Book, also known as The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, is a 500-page document compiled for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman o
Vasily Grossman
…Grossman when he calculated the number of trains that could arrive at the extermination camp each day. Grossman participated in the compiling of the Black Book, a project of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to document the crimes of the Holocaust. The post-war suppression of the Black Book by the Soviet state…
Ilya Erenburg's Black book