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1891 - 1967

Ilya Ehrenburg

Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and historian.

Ilya Ehrenburg wrote The Black Book of Soviet Jewry, the first documentary work made on the Holocaust, with Vasily Grossman.

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In WWII, Ehrenburg declared that Germans were “not human”, and wrote numerous articles calling for vengeance against the German population for the crimes of Nazi Germany. This earned him huge popularity among Soviet front-line soldiers.

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Ilya Ehrenburg - Wikipedia

"Ehrenburg, Ilya Grigor’evich" - The Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe