The Jewish Daily Forward reported today that it has been definitely established that two prominent Yiddish writers–Peretz Markish and David Hofstein–were executed in the Soviet Union in 1952. Others reported to have been executed, without confirmation, were David Bergelson, Itzik Fefer and Leib Kvitko.
The report, which came from Leon Crystal, Forward correspondent who returned from Moscow, said that Soviet officials summoned the relatives of the executed writers and tole them that the men had been executed in August 1952, through “a miscarriage of executed after the death of Stalin, on charges of treason.
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