“Stalin was irritated by his popularity”

Granddaughter of Solomon Mikhoels - about the murder of her grandfather, the arrest of her father Moses Weinberg and the fear of the Stalin era

The story of Solomon Mikhoels' family through the eyes of his only granddaughter Victoria Bishops.

This issue contains memories of Stalin's terror, the murder of Mikhoels, the arrest of composer Moses Weinberg, the atmosphere of fear in the early 1950s and how the family lived under constant surveillance. Victoria Bishops says:

• why Shostakovich was ready to adopt her after her father’s arrest;

• how the search took place in the Weinbergs' apartment;

• what is known about the murder of Solomon Mikhoels;

• how the Soviet government destroyed the memory of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee;

• why the name Mikhoels has become important again today.