Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Persecution of the Jewish Antifascist Committee
13 janv. 1948·Minsk
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its president Solomon Mikhoels is killed and his death made to look like a road accident; the committee will be dissolved and its leaders arrested
In January 1948, Solomon Mikhoels, actor and director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre, president of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, was killed in Minsk, where he had been sent on an official mission. The body was found in the early morning in a snow-covered street, and the death disguised as a traffic accident; the State gave him a national funeral.
The murder, ordered at the highest levels of Soviet power, opened the campaign against the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and against the "rootless cosmopolitans." The Committee was dissolved, its writers and poets arrested, then shot after a secret trial; the theatre was closed. What remained of Jewish cultural institutions in the Soviet Union disappeared within a few years.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Biélorussie
Documents des archives soviétiques sur le Comité antifasciste juif ; témoignages et travaux sur la campagne antisémite d'après-guerre.