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Vasily Grossman

Died in 1964

Vasily Grossman (1905-1964), born in Berdichev, was a front-line correspondent for the Red Army newspaper during the war; he followed the fighting at Stalingrad in particular. His 1944 account of the Treblinka camp ranks among the first written testimonies on an extermination camp. With Ilya Ehrenburg he took part in a documentary collection on the fate of Soviet Jews. His last novels were seized or remained unpublished in his lifetime. He died in Moscow in 1964.

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