Solomon Bregman (1895 – 1953) was a prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities...

 formed in the Soviet Union in April 1942. The committee was led by the famous Yiddish actor Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels ; was a Soviet Jewish actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater. Mikhoels served as the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee during the Second World War...

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Bregman was born in the town of Zlynka in the Bryansk

Bryansk

Bryansk is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located southwest of Moscow. Population: -History:The first written mention of Bryansk was in 1146, in the Hypatian Codex, as Debryansk...

 district. Bregman was a deputy minister of State Control and an active party member since 1912. He was editor-in-chief of The Book About Jews-Heroes of the War against Fascism

Fascism

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. He also participated in collecting materials for Black Book, a publication detailing the extermination of the Jews

Jews

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 of the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 by the Germans

Germans

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 and their collaborators during World War II

World War II

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. He joined JAC

Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities...

 in 1944.

He was arrested together with other members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in 1948. Having never admitted his guilt, he died in jail of heart disease on January 23, 1953 after surviving severe beatings.

External links

• http://forum.grani.ru/jews/articles/eak/ In Russian.
• http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/124/a.htm In Russian, contains photos of the arrested members of JAC
  Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
  The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was formed on Joseph Stalin's order in Kuibyshev in April 1942 with the official support of the Soviet authorities...
  
  and the accusations against them.
• http://process.orcom.ru/idelo2354.htm
• http://www.idf.ru/9/doc.shtml