Boris Abramovich Shimeliovich (russian: Борис Абрамович Шимелиович, 1892 – 1952) was the medical director of Moscow's , a well known and widely respected institution.
Born in
Riga
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, he was an active
revolutionary
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who participated in the
Russian Civil War and eventually became active in
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC). Shimeliovich was arrested on January 13, 1949, for espionage. He was so severely beaten during the interrogations that he had to be carried on a stretcher into the court three years after. He was executed in August 1952 together with other members of JAC, which became known as the
Night of the Murdered Poets.
On November 22, 1955 (well after
Joseph Stalin's death in 1953), military collegium of the
Supreme Court of the Soviet Union withdrew the indictments against the JAC members due to the lack of evidence. Shimeliovich's
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
"Hymn of the Bolshevik Party"
, headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow
, general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last)
, founded =
, banned =
, founder = Vladimir Lenin
, newspaper ...
membership was restored only in 1988.
His brother was (1890-1919), a former member of
Bund turned
Bolshevik revolutionary.
References
Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee(introduction) by
Joshua Rubenstein
Joshua Rubenstein is an American activist, writer and scholar of literature, dissent, and politics in the former Soviet Union. He won a National Jewish Book Award in Eastern European studies in 2002 for his book ''Stalin’s Secret Pogrom''.
Bio ...
Seven-fold Betrayal: The Murder of Soviet Yiddishby Joseph Sherman
External links
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1951 Soviet report on Shimeliovich
Soviet Jews
Latvian Jews
1892 births
1952 deaths
Jewish anti-fascists
Jewish physicians
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