Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

male, deceased (1948)
Jewish, Russian road accident victim, Russian, actor, Soviet state, Road accident victim…Jewish Russian and Soviet history, JewishAnti-Fascist Committee, Moscow State Jewish Theater, Jewish film and theatre, Jewish person
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (real surname - Vovsi), ; (January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the...
Peretz Markish

Peretz Markish

male, deceased (1952)
Nkvd, Jewish, writer, World War I, Russian, soviet…JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Peretz Markish (in Polonnoye, currently Ukraine - 12 August 1952 in Moscow) was a Jewish Soviet writer who wrote in Yiddish. His very distant...
Itzik Feffer

Itzik Feffer

male, deceased (1952)
Jewish, poet, World War II, yiddish, writer, Soviet poet…JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Itzik Feffer was a Soviet Yiddish poet who fell victim to Stalin's purges. Itzik Feffer was born in Shpola, a town in Zvenigorod "uyezd" (district)...

Solomon Lozovsky

male, deceased (1952)
Nikita Khruschev, Old Bolshevik, politburo, Antisemitism, anti-Semitic, Soviet politician…Jewish person, Anti-semitism, JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Solomon Lozovsky (1878-1952) was a Russian Jewish revolutionary, a colleague of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and a prominent official in the Soviet...

Leib Kvitko

male, deceased (1952)
Jewish, poet, yiddish, Soviet poet, Russian, ussr…JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Leib Kvitko (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Je...

David Hofstein

male, deceased (1952)
russian revolution of 1917, pogrom, poet, communist party, yiddish, Jewish…Jewish person, JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
David Hofstein (1889 - August 12, 1952) was a Yiddish poet. He was born in Ukraine and received a traditional Jewish education; his application to...

Boris Shimeliovich

male
Latvian, Jewish person, riga, stalin, Victim of Soviet repressions, revolutionary…Jewish Russian and Soviet history, JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Boris Shimeliovich (1892-1952) was the medical director of Moscow's Botkin Hospital, a well known and widely respected institution. Born in Riga,...
Solomon Bregman

Solomon Bregman

male, deceased (1953)
World War II, yiddish, Political repression in the Soviet Union, Jewish person, fascism, collaborator…JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Solomon Bregman, in Russian,Соломон Брегман, was a prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee formed in the Soviet Union in April 1942....
Lina Stern

Lina Stern

female, deceased (1968)
Humanist, Stalin Prize winner, Physiologist, neuroscience, Jewish, Biochemist…Jewish Russian and Soviet history, JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Lina Solomonovna Stern was a notable biochemist, physiologist and humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of...

Aaron Katz

male
Victim of Soviet repressions, shtetl, Jewish Russian and Soviet history, red army, Great Patriotic War, Byelorussia…JewishAnti-Fascist Committee
Aaron Katz (1901-1971) was Major General in the Red Army and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). Born in the town (shtetl) Ryasny...