Tag #149401 - Interview #96226 (Ihil Shraibman)

On 12th August 1952 a group of Jewish writers was executed: Dovid Bergelson [27], Peretz Markish, David Gofstein [Gofstein, David Naumovich (1889-1952): a Soviet Jewish poet], who lived in Kiev, Lev Kvitko [28], Yitsik Fefer. Many representatives of the Jewish intelligentsia were executed. Then there came the period of the ‘Doctors’ Plot’ [29]. There were rumors that echelons for sending Jews to the Far East were prepared [30]. Rumors said that Stalin wished to deport Jews to save them from people’s anger. I cannot tell how true this was, but there were such rumors.