“On August 12, 1952, Bergelson’s sixty-eighth birthday, he was executed.2 For decades, before the transcripts of the trial became accessible to the public following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the date was known, and observed in many Jewish communities the world over, as the Night of the Murdered Poets.”
― from “Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region (Jewish Encounters Series)”
Bergelson went before a firing squad because he has written about his belief that a Russian Jew could be a Jew. This was described as “nationalistic” heresy.
Now under Trump, this is happening to Muslims.