Vasily Grossman Quotes

Vasily Grossman — Russian Journalist born on December 12, 1905, died on September 14, 1964

Vasily Semyonovich Grossman was a Soviet Russian writer and journalist. Grossman was trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed his career in the 1930s and published short stories and several novels. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he became a war correspondent for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, writing firsthand accounts of the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin. Grossman's eyewitness accounts of conditions in a Nazi extermination camp, following the liberation of Treblinka, were among the earliest. Grossman also translated Armenian literature into Russian, despite the fact that he lacked the ability to read Armenian, and worked on an interlinear translation made for him by a third person... (wikipedia)