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	Vasily Grossman
		Grossman might have been a bit naive about socialism, but he was well aware that even private notebooks were routinely checked by the secret police, and that people were persecuted for lesser crimes than criticizing the authorities or doubting the wholesomeness of the Soviet spirit.
		Grossman's mother perished during the massacre of Berdichev, and for the rest of his life he was plagued by guilt: had he pressed his mother to join him in Moscow, she might have lived.
		Grossman's article was one of the very first accounts of the concentration camps, and his main purpose was to introduce the tragedy at its most horrifying.
	www.berdichev.org /vassily_grossman.htm (1354 words)

	Vasily Grossman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (alternatively spelled Vassily, Vasiliy, Russian language: Василий Гроссман), December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964, was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
		Grossman began writing short stories while studying at Moscow State University and later continued his literary activity working as an engineer in the Donbass.
		Grossman's documentary descriptions of ethnically cleansed Ukraine and Poland, the opening of Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps were some of the first eyewitness accounts — as early as 1943 — of what later became known as the Holocaust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vassily_Grossman (1042 words)

	Vasily Grossman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (alternatively spelled Vassily, Vasiliy, (additional info and facts about Russian language) Russian language: Василий Гроссман), December 12 1905 – September 14 1964, was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
		Young Vasily Grossman idealistically supported the 1917 (The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917) Russian Revolutions.
		Grossman began writing short stories while studying at (additional info and facts about Moscow State University) Moscow State University and later continued his literary activity working as an engineer in the (An industrial region in the Ukraine) Donbass.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vasily_grossman.htm (1341 words)

	Vasily Grossman: The Human Scale in Totalitarian Infinity - Lev Navrozov
		Vasily Grossman: The Human Scale in Totalitarian Infinity
		Stalin's persecution of Grossman as a Jew made the victim see the light of "kindness, morality, and mercy," even during the Soviet-Nazi war to the death.
		The question as to which pulp is worse from the literary point of view, Soviet pulp or American pulp (as produced by John Updike, William Styron, the late Irwin Shaw, and hordes of lesser-known names), is beyond the scope of this essay.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1986/june/Sa10976.htm (299 words)

	The Quarterly Conversation: A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After all, this was before the invasion, before Grossman eventually signed on with the Red Army newspaper and logged a thousand days at the front, before the prolonged horrors of Stalingrad and Kursk, before Majdanek, before Treblinka, before Berdichev, where the SS shot Grossman's elderly mother and tossed her into a trench.
		If giggly Vasily was raised in a famine-plagued country where "parents crazed by hunger ate their own children," he finally came of age in a world where a son couldn't save his mom.
		Grossman's account of the war comes from censored stories he wrote for Krasnaya Zvedzda, the official Red Army newspaper, as well as letters to his wife and parents, and uncensored notes that he concealed from Communist Party authorities.
	esposito.typepad.com /the_quarterly_conversatio/2006/03/a_writer_at_war.html (1294 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Life and Fate: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Grossman offers a bitter, compelling vision of a totalitarian regime where the spirit of freedom that arose among those under fire was feared by the state at least as much as were the Nazis.
		Grossman approaches this subject from the many different views of his huge cast of characters, and the reader gets a sense for not only how awful the situation was, but also how the situation was accepted and how each person was forced to deal with it in their own way.
		Grossman says yes, this is all true, but what counts are the pathetic lives of the unlucky but steadfast citizens caught in the grip of madmen; this is where the real crime takes place.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060153652 (1433 words)

	BookkooB: Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman
		Grossman was born in Berdichev, Ukraine in 1905.
		Grossman was the first reporter to write first hand accounts of German concentration camps and his work at Treblinka understandably had a devastating impact on his world view.
		Grossman's assertion towards the end of his work that we can be slaves by fate but not slaves by nature is an important concept to keep a hold of today.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0002614545.htm (1810 words)

	Commentary Magazine - A Russian Writer's Jewish Fate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		...VAILY GROSSMAN was born in 1905 in the Ukrainian town of Berdichev"our kike capital," to borrow an expression of Isaac Babel's...
		...Grossman was no saint (though this is what Lipkin calls him at the end of his memoir), and until he himself was hit by intense suffering, he did not feel real empathy for the suffering of other people...
		...Grossman wrote to Khrushchev after the 22nd party congress (October 17-31, 1961) during which the policy of de-Stalinization, begun by Khrushchev five years earlier in the famous "secret" address to the 20th congress, was decisively upheld...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V81I4P41-1.htm (8138 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Bones of Berdichev: The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman - John Garrard and Carol ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On September 15 and 16, 1941, while the Wehrmacht's 11th Panzer division was moved to Zhitomir and entertained with films and musical theater, segments of the German SS systematically finished butchering the last 20,000 of the city's 30,000 Jews, half its population.
		Vasily Grossman, who died in 1964, was a Soviet novelist with a talent rivaling Solzhenitsyn's, and he was a courageous and renowned war reporter who covered every major battle from Stalingrad to Kursk.
		Grossman is a sufficiently important Soviet cultural figure to deserve a biography, and through his the Garrards say a good deal about cultural politics, internal repression, and antisemitism in the Soviet Union.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19960701fabook4019/john-garrard-carol-garrard/the-bones-of-berdichev-the-life-and-fate-of-vasily-grossman.html?mode=print (205 words)

	Grossman, V.S. - SovLit.com - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors
		Grossman was with the army at Stalingrad, and in 1943 published Stalingrad, a collection of sketches describing the defense of the city, the beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive, and the first stages of the encirclement of the German forces.
		Grossman's mother was among the 20,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis in Berdichev in the early days of the war.
		Grossman's heroic achievement was simply to proclaim human life the main value of the world and the main criterion of all historical change.
	www.sovlit.com /bios/grossman.html (1353 words)

	Vassily Grossman - a tribute
		Grossman, whose front-line journalism made him a Soviet national hero during the war, believed that Life and Fate, which centres on the battle of Stalingrad, could now be published.
		Grossman's descriptions of ethnically-cleansed Ukraine and the opening of Treblinka concentration camp in Poland were the first accounts anywhere of what came to be called the holocaust.
		Shtrum, probably again reflecting Grossman himself, is tormented by guilt that he failed to invite his mother to his already-crowded Moscow flat at the start of the war, when she still could have escaped.
	www.berdichev.org /vasssili_grossman_tribute.html (1199 words)

	A World to Win \| Review \| Books \| Defying the general coercion
		Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate is one of the great novels of the last century, and much of the raw material for it was gathered during World War II when he wrote for the Red Army newspaper, Red Star.
		Grossman was fascinated by the lives of the snipers, whose deeds contributed greatly to the morale of whole armies, and he got to know several of them, including Vasily Zaitsev, whose exploits were celebrated in the film Enemy at the Gates starring Jude Law.
		Grossman's notes are extensively reproduced in the book, but the editors also provide a commentary, providing the context in which the observations are made.
	www.aworldtowin.net /reviews/VasilyGrossman.html (2684 words)

	Books : Forever Flowing (European Classics)
		Vasily Grossman is something of a forgotten, unsung, giant of Soviet dissident authors.
		In fact, Grossman may have been the first reporter to tell the story of the Holocaust, beginning with his reports subsequent to the liberation of Treblinka in Poland.
		Grossman did not buy into this line and Forever Flowing is noted for a remarkable attack not only on Stalin but on Lenin and Lenin's anti-democratic tendencies that had more in common with Ivan the Terrible than the principles of revolutionary democracy.
	www.homeremodelingtoday.com /books/home-remodeling/0810115034 (943 words)

	Vasily Grossman - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (alternatively spelled Vassily, Vasiliy, Russian language: Василий Гроссман), December 12 1905 – September 14 1964, was a prominent Soviet-era writer and journalist.
		Grossman's documentary descriptions of ethnically cleansed Ukraine and Poland, the opening of Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps were some of the first eyewitness accounts — as early as 1943 — of what later became known as the Holocaust.
		Vasily Grossman, Biography, Quotes, See also, Publications, References and Footnotes.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Vasily_Grossman (1074 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - Life and FateBy Vasily Grossman Translated by Robert Chandler
		Vasily Grossman was born in 1905 in Berdichev, Ukraine.
		Grossman also reported on the Holocaust and its aftermath, and he became increasingly aware of his own Jewish roots.
		Grossman portrays not only the sweeping effects of Nazism and Soviet Communism, but the ways in which these crushing ideologies daily affected individuals — fathers, mothers, children, lovers, friends.
	www.yiddishbookcenter.org /story.php?n=10143 (1593 words)

	A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman
		In the three years he spent on assignment, Grossman witnessed some of the most savage fighting of the war: the appalling defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine and much more.
		“Grossman was able to gain access to the inner worlds both of officers and soldiers, and he had the eye for the telling image that you would expect from a great novelist….
		Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) came to be regarded as a hero of the Second World War.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/9780375424076.html (658 words)

	Turning the pages back... December 12, 1905 (12/08/02) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vasily Grossman was born on December 12, 1905, in Berdychiv, home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe at the time, located about 30 miles south of Zhytomyr in the Kyiv gubernia.
		After the tyrant's death, Grossman embarked on "Zhizn i Sudba" (Life and Fate), a fictional treatment of the Berdychiv massacre, the history of the Nazi-Soviet war.
		Grossman completed this work in 1963, and died in Moscow the following year, on September 14, eerily, 22 years to the day his mother had been murdered.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2002/490216.shtml (526 words)

	Vasily Grossman - TheBestLinks.com - Andrei Sakharov, Battle of Stalingrad, December 12, Extermination camp, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vasily Grossman - TheBestLinks.com - Andrei Sakharov, Battle of Stalingrad, December 12, Extermination camp,...
		Vasily Grossman, Andrei Sakharov, Battle of Stalingrad, December 12...
		Later, with Khrushchev's post-Stalinist "thaw" underway, Grossman wrote him: "What's the point of me being physically free when the book I dedicated my life to is arrested...
	www.thebestlinks.com /Vasily_Grossman.html (1033 words)

	Independent Lens . THE LAST LETTER . The Novel \| PBS
		In a kaleidoscope of scenes located on both sides of the front, author Vasily Grossman describes the tragic events of the early-to-mid-20th century, a history that witnessed human violence inflicted on millions of people.
		In 1941, Grossman’s mother, Ekaterina Savelievna, a French teacher in Berdichev, was murdered in the Germans’ massacre of the town’s entire Jewish population.
		Grossman wrote Life and Fate between 1954 and 1961, but the KGB soon confiscated his work, deeming his expose of the Soviet regime ideologically objectionable.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/lastletter/novel.html (373 words)

	Amazon.com: A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945: Books: Vasily Grossman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Grossman wrote for the Red Army's official newspaper, and his frank character observations of officers and men will affect those interested in the soul of the WWII Soviet army, and in the genocide its advance revealed.
		Grossman's experience of the camps and the evidence he saw there of man's innate inhumanity to man stunned him even after almost 4 years of living with brutality on an unfathomable scale.
		Grossman's ability to convey and tell the truth to a people desperate for "news" under the circumstances of his day was nothing short of inspirational and so very human.
	www.amazon.com /Writer-War-Vasily-Grossman-1941-1945/dp/0375424075 (3677 words)

	Vasily Grossman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (alternatively spelled Vassily, Vasiliy, Russian language :Василий Гроссман), December 12, 1905 - September 15, 1964, was a prominentSoviet-era writer and journalist.
		In the mid- 1930s Grossman left his job as an engineer and committed himself fully towriting.
		Grossman's documentary descriptions of ethnically cleansed Ukraine and Poland, the opening of Treblinka and Majdanek extermination camps were some of the first eyewitness accounts - asearly as 1943 - of what later became known as the Holocaust.
	www.therfcc.org /vasily-grossman-258226.html (946 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Tangled Loyalties by Joshua Rubenstein; The Bones of Berdichev by John and Carol Garrard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Each is now the subject of a new biography, and the two books together offer an occasion to reflect on the moral compromises different individuals make in the face of a brutal regime--and, as it happens, on the compromises biographers make to justify the lives they narrate.
		...Grossman's posthumously published novel, Forever Flowing, includes a chapter in which a Bolshevik official reminisces about trains that were sealed so that no one could throw food to the starving beggars...
		...Grossman had witnessed such beggars on a trip to Ukraine in those years, where he also learned that, as previously in the civil war, there were instances of cannibalism as well...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V102I3P82-1.htm (2423 words)

	National Yiddish Book Center - Life and FateBy Vasily Grossman Translated by Robert Chandler
		Vasily Grossman was born in 1905 in Berdichev, Ukraine.
		Grossman also reported on the Holocaust and its aftermath, and he became increasingly aware of his own Jewish roots.
		The outlook too is distinctly that of the nineteenth century: discrete human beings are firmly linked to each other by birth and circumstance, by their absolute values and actions or by the lack thereof; no one is isolated except in death.
	www.nationalyiddishbookcenter.com /story.php?n=10143 (1593 words)

	►► Review: John and Carol Garrard, The Bones of Berdichev
		Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) is among my favorite authors, and his best novel, Life and Fate, is my favorite twentieth century novel.
		Grossman is nearly always in the foreground, but the Holocaust looms large, as it did for him, through his years as a renowned and gifted war correspondent, and through the official disgrace in which he lived his last years, as punishment for writing things the Soviet government did not want to be written.
		As the Garrards note, "Grossman was in fact a man of deep contradictions, like the times in which he lived.
	www.bookishthoughts.com /garrard_jc_bones.htm (351 words)

	Yitzhak Arad Letter 05 25-Jun-1999 You suppressed The Black Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book consists of testimony taken by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vassily Grossman in those areas which were liberated within the Soviet Union — areas which were taken back during the counterattack of the Soviets, and when they came to certain camps and cities, they took testimony concerning what had happened there.
		Amnesia concerning Vasily Grossman was what was called for in the conspiracy to get John Demjanjuk hanged, and you were ready to provide whatever it happened to be that the conspiracy called for.
		I think that when you testified in 1987 at the Demjanjuk trial in Jerusalem, one reason that you evaded discussing Vasily Grossman's Treblinka was because it was clearly fantasy, and because your having published it demonstrated that you were, at least in part, a dealer in Holocaust fantasy.
	www.ukar.org /arad05.html (4655 words)

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