Vasily Grossman
Vasily Grossman · Arts & Literature
Russian novelist ('Life and Fate')
1905, Berdychiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1964, Moscow, Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Vasily Grossman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Russian novelist ('Life and Fate')
Grossman was a Soviet writer and war correspondent whose epic novel 'Life and Fate' portrays both Nazi and Soviet totalitarianism; the manuscript was seized by the KGB and published only after his death. Born to a Jewish family in Berdychiv, he wrote among the earliest eyewitness reporting on the Holocaust.
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Russian novelist ('Life and Fate')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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