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Samuil Lehtțir

Died in 1937

Samuil Lehtțir was born on 25 October 1901 in Otaci, in what was then Russian Bessarabia, into a Jewish family. Opposed to the union of Bessarabia with Romania, he crossed into Soviet Ukraine, came back to study at the University of Cernăuți, then crossed the Dniester again in 1926 towards the Moldavian autonomous republic, where he worked at the state publishing house in Tiraspol. He was one of the organisers of the writers' union and of the journal Moldova literară. Arrested in 1937, he was shot the same year.

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