No one seems to know exactly how many Soviet Jews were executed by the Soviet Union in the basement of Moscow’s Lubyanka Prison on August 12, 1952.
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish.
On August 12, over 100 people gathered at New York’s Center for Jewish History to mark the 58th anniversary of the Night of the Murdered Poets, commemorating the Stalin-ordered execution of 13 prominent Soviet Jews, including five Yiddish writers.