P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964

P.21.2 - Speeches and letters of Ilya Ehrenburg, 1941-1964
 
 Subsection P. 21.2 includes original documentation belonging to the well-known Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg: speeches by Ilya Ehrenburg starting with his appeal to world Jewry at the anti-fascist rally, 24 August 1941, and ending with his speech marking the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Soviet Jewish writer, Isaak Babel in 1964; in the subsection there are many letters from Soviet Jews regarding displays of antisemitism in their everyday lives and condemnation of the "Murderous Physicians" (The Doctors' Plot, 1953), memoirs of Holocaust survivors which were sent to Ilya Ehrenburg, articles and photographs.