Night of the Murdered Poets

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Night_of_the_Murdered_Poets
GPTKB entity
Statements (38)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath censorship of Yiddish literature
fear among Soviet Jews
further repression of Jewish organizations
gptkbp:cause gptkb:antisemitism
gptkb:Stalinist_purges
gptkbp:commemorates August 12
gptkbp:date August 12, 1952
gptkbp:language_of_victims gptkb:Yiddish
gptkbp:location gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:Lubyanka_Prison,_Moscow
gptkbp:method execution by firing squad
gptkbp:notableVictim gptkb:David_Bergelson
gptkb:David_Hofstein
gptkb:Benjamin_Zuskin
gptkb:Boris_Shimeliovich
gptkb:Itzik_Feffer
gptkb:Leib_Kvitko
gptkb:Solomon_Lozovsky
gptkb:Peretz_Markish
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Soviet_government
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee
gptkbp:significance gptkb:Suppression_of_Jewish_culture_in_the_USSR
gptkbp:victim gptkb:artist
gptkb:poet
gptkb:writer
13
doctors
Jewish intellectuals
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:The_Twenty-Seventh_Man
gptkb:David_Bergelson
gptkb:David_Hofstein
gptkb:Leyb_Kvitko
gptkb:Jewish_Anti-Fascist_Committee
gptkb:Soviet_Jews
gptkb:Peretz_Markish
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Night of the Murdered Poets