High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On August 12, 1952, fifteen Soviet Jews were falsely charged with capital offenses. Thirteen of them were executed in the Lubyanka Prison basement in Moscow, Russia. This night of massacre is known as the Night of the Murdered Poets. Joseph Stalin's increasingly violent antisemitism was unleashed in September 1948 and June 1949 when the arrests were first made. All were falsely accused of espionage and treason as well as many other crimes. After their arrests, they were tortured, beaten, and isolated for 3 years before being formally charged. There were five Yiddish writers among these defendants, all of whom were a part of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Solomon Mikhoels, a Yiddish actor and director, headed the Committee. Other members of the committee were prominent Yiddish literary figures, actors, and doctors who wanted to help influence Jewish support for Russia through their writing and also using radio broadcasts from Russia to different countries.

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