Let us not forget those Soviet Jews
who were persecuted during Stalin’s rule.
The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC,
Russian: Еврейский антифашистский комитет Yevreysky
antifashistsky komitet, ЕАК) was initiated
by the Jewish Bund leaders Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter. Upon their arrests
the Committee was reformed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev 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 West.
In 1952, as part of the persecution of Jews in the latter part of Stalin's rule
(for example, the "Doctors' plot"), most prominent members of
the JAC were arrested on trumped-up spying charges, tortured, and executed by
firing squad after a secret mock trial. They were officially rehabilitated in
1988.
No comments:
Post a Comment