Василий Семёнович Гроссман

1905–1964

2 standalone books

Vasily Semenovich Grossman (real name: Iosif Solomonovich Grossman; November 29 (December 12), 1905, Berdichev – September 14, 1964, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet writer and journalist, war correspondent, and lieutenant colonel in the quartermaster service. He was born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, which was then part of the Russian Empire. His main work, the novel Life and Fate, was confiscated in 1961 by the KGB, miraculously preserved, secretly exported on microfilm, and first published only in 1980 in Lausanne, Switzerland (edited by Shimon Markish and Yefim Etkind). His testimony about the Nazi death camps, written after the liberation of Treblinka, is one of the earliest written documents about the Holocaust among Jews and was used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.

Born

1905