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Leib Kvitko () (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in Samara, Russia in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the Western world....
 (JAC). He was one of the editors of Einigkeit (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets
Night of the Murdered Poets

The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow....
.

He was born in a Ukrainian
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 shtetl
Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-The Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Poland, Galicia , and Romania....
, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (Cheder
Cheder

A Cheder is a traditional elementary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language....
) and was orphaned early.






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Leib Kvitko () (October 15, 1890 — August 12, 1952) was a prominent Yiddish poet, an author of well-known children's poems and a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed in Samara, Russia in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities. It was designed to influence international public opinion and organize political and material support for the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany, particularly from the Western world....
 (JAC). He was one of the editors of Einigkeit (the JAC's newspaper) and of the Heymland, a literary magazine. He was executed in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 on August 12, 1952 together with twelve other members of the JAC, a massacre known as the Night of the Murdered Poets
Night of the Murdered Poets

The Night of the Murdered Poets refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Joseph Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow....
.

He was born in a Ukrainian
Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south....
 shtetl
Shtetl

A shtetl was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-The Holocaust Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Shtetls were mainly found in the areas which constituted the 19th century Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire, the Congress Poland, Galicia , and Romania....
, attended traditional Jewish religious school for boys (Cheder
Cheder

A Cheder is a traditional elementary school teaching the basics of Judaism and the Hebrew language....
) and was orphaned early. He moved to Kiev
Kiev

Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....
 in 1917 and soon became one of the leading Yiddish poets of the "Kiev group". He lived in Germany
Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic was the democracy and republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933. Following World War I, the republic emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918....
 between 1921 and 1925 joining there the Communist Party of Germany
Communist Party of Germany

The Communist Party of Germany was a major political party in Germany between 1918 and 1933, and a minor party in West Germany in the postwar period....
 and publishing critically acclaimed poetry. He returned to the USSR in 1925 and moved to Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 in 1936, joining the CPSU in 1939. By that time he was primarily writing verses for children and his style fully corresponded to the canons of Socialist Realism
Socialist realism

Socialist realism is a Teleology-oriented style of realism which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. Although related, it should not be confused with social realism, a type of art that realistically depicts subjects of social concern....
.

Literature

The night of the murdered poets was explained in following books:
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russians novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings, he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labour camp system, and for these efforts Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974....
     wrote a great deal on stalin's crimes against humanity, his most popular novel on gulags life is The Gulag Archipelago
    The Gulag Archipelago

    The Gulag Archipelago is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system. The three-volume book is a massive narrative relying on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a GULAG labor camp....
    . Katyn is also mentioned. Ironically stalin died from beria's warfarin rat poison put in wine, to the moment 13 years later on march 5 1953 after signing Katyn execution orders of polish intelligentsia, military, religious etc, 22000+ were brutally Slaughtered & dumped in unknown graves!!!
  • History of stalinism evil by Khrushchev who was the anti stalin soviet leader of 1953 destalinization process, completing it on november 1 1961, amazingly on All Saints Day, holiday stalin banned, reburying him very deep behind kremlin wall (he was taken from lenin mausuleum on October 31) without any fanfare!!!


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    Kiev

    Kiev, also known as Kyiv , is the Capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River....