Гроссман Василий Семенович (1905-1964) - писатель

244 files, 4 opisi Manuscrips, drafts, and notebooks of the writer, correspondence with editors and colleagues. Opis 2: 1949 - 1963 Manuscripts of "Life and Fate" (1960). Notebooks, diaries, interviews with red army soldiers (1943-1945) Opis 3: Notebooks (1941-1950) Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (1905 - 1964) was a writer, journalist and war correspondent. He was born in Berdychev, in Jewish family. He studied in Kiev and Moscow as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, but preferred the career of a writer to the science. In 1934 the novel "In the Town of Berdichev" dedicated to the Civil War was published. During the Great Patriotic war he worked as a war correspondent of the "Red Star" newspaper on the Central, Bryansk, South-West, Stalingrad, Voronezh, 1st Belorussian, 1st Ukranian Fronts. In 1944 he was one among other correspondents who saw the extermination camps Treblinka and Majdanek right after their liberation. He described his impressions in the article "The Hell of Treblinka", which was the first artistic work on the topic of Holocaust in the USSR. After the end of the Wr together with Ilya Ehrenburg he worked n the "Black Book" - the collection of evidences of Nazi crimes against Jews in the Soviet Union. The book was first published in the USA, in USSR the edition of the book was scrapped completely due to the ideological reasons. In Russian it was published in 1980 in Israel. It was published in 2015 in Russia by Ilya Altman. In 1946 Grossmann he started the dilogy "For a Just Cause" and "Life and Fate". The novel was declared antisoviet, all the manuscripts, carbon copies, notebooks, as well as typewriter ribbons were seized by KGB. Due to the shock after it, the writer had health issues, he died in 1964 from cancer. After his death, the copy of "Life and Fate" was eventually smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a network of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich, and first published in the West, before appearing in the Soviet Union in 1988.