Solomon Bregman

Solomon Bregman ( Russian Брегман, Соломон Леонтьевич ; born 1895 in Slynka ; died on January 23, 1953 in Moscow ) was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAFK) .

Life

Solomon Bregman was born in Slynka near Bryansk in 1895, the son of a trader. According to his own statements, he had a middle school education and joined the RSDLP in 1912 . He rose to the position of Deputy Minister for State Control of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic .

In July 1944 he was appointed to the JAFK Presidium at the suggestion of ZK member Shcherbakov. As a party functionary and obedient state official, he was supposed to prevent the committee from expanding its powers as a representative of Soviet Jews and to intensify the original aims of war propaganda.

He also worked on the Black Book Commission, where he criticized the authors' many alleged political mistakes.

He was arrested on January 28, 1949. He charged himself and other defendants under torture, but later retracted some of the statements. He passed out while in detention and was transferred to the infirmary of Butyrka Prison. His trial was separated from the main trial on July 9, 1952. Since he was still unconscious at the time, the case against him was dropped. He died on January 23, 1953 in Butyrka Prison.

literature

• Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. The tragic story of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews. Structure, Berlin 1998, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 3-7466-8049-2 , p. 386 ff.