(Courtesy: The St. Petersburg Times)By John Garrard The war on the Eastern Front remains largely “undiscovered country” for the Western reader despite the fact that […]
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PHOTOS TAKEN DURING THE HOLOCAUST IN BERDICHEV
HOLOCAUST VICTIMS
Feiga Schmaevsky née Gouttemann, born in Berdichev in 08/04/1902, living in France. Deported to Auschwitz, in 27/07/1942 (J.O n° 144 from 23/06/2000 page 9463) Source: […]
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(Beyond Propaganda)(Courtesy: Richard Wong) A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945by Vasily Grossman. Edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba […]
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Life and Fate (Vassilly Grossman) Courtesy: Adam Kirsch Writing the story of the Holocaust is a futile ambition—not because the events of 1939 to 1945 […]
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(Courtesy: Andrew Glikin-Gusinsky) An overview of the life and times of the prolific Russian writer and war correspondent Vasily Grossman.Russian author Vasily Grossman was a […]
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(Courtesy: Theodor Herzl Foundation) Pinkhes-Pinye Kahanovitsh (1884-1950), modern Yiddish literature’s leading symbolis is best known under his pen name, Der Nister. Born in Berdichev, Ukraine, […]
Continue readingTHE MAXIMALIST: ON VASILY GROSSMAN
(Courtesy:”The Nation’, by Jochen Hellbeck – December 2010) In 1961 Vasily Grossman was summoned by Mikhail Suslov, the Soviet Union’s ideological commissar, to discuss the […]
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(Courtesy: Blake Eskin) A collection of Vasily Grossman’s shorter work offers a chance to reassess the Soviet master’s life and legacy. A conversation with Grossman […]
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