Biography l m Kvitko

His date of birth is indicated on November 11. The writer himself did not remember exactly, he called this or a year. His father worked at different works. He was a joiner, a woodcarker and a bindter. Often went and gave classes in the villages of a teacher. The family was large, but all the brothers and sisters died of tuberculosis in infancy. Soon, his parents died from this disease.

The boy remained an orphan in the care of his grandmother. Since childhood, Leo had to work hard. There was no way to go to school, so he studied independently. He was able to learn the Jewish and Russian literacy himself. The first verses since the years have already begun to compose the first children's poems.

In the year, they managed to show their writers. The talented guy was noticed and appreciated, and in his children's works they saw the light. The next one was published a year later, a poem about the October Revolution. In the year, the Kiev publishing house sends him to study in Berlin. Life there was also not easy, so I had to work a lot. In the year, the writer moves to Hamburg.

Found a good job in the port of the leather receiver. After joining the Communist Party of Germany, he actively campaigning among working youth. Due to the fear of arrest, he decided to return back to the Union. Returns to Ukraine and continues its work. He wrote actively and in the year published 17 books. Although Lev Moiseevich wrote in Yiddish, readers fell in love with his frank and open character in works.

His defender became K. It was he who convinced the Central Committee in the year that Kvitko’s poems should learn all the children of the Union. Before the war, his books were produced in large circulations. The most important work for Leo was the book Autobiography "Youth Years". The writer worked on her for 13 years since the years. But it was possible to release the book only in the year with translation into Russian.

During the war, the originals burned and had to look for a work everywhere. Children's works of Leo Kvitko are very interesting and diverse. The poet gained great fame thanks to children's works. The writer was a poet and a prose writer, and was often fond of a satirical style. There was even one case when he was not admitted to the publishing house due to satirical poems.

He moves to Moscow in the year and conducts active activities. He becomes a member of the Jewish Anti -Fascist Committee during the war. He performed various tasks, in the year was sent to work in the Crimea. After the war, the committee defeated, and its members were arrested in the year. They are charged with treason. The verdict pronounces the measure of the highest punishment.

In August, Lev Kvitko was shot, and rehabilitated in the year. The life of the 20th century was saturated with a political struggle, and surviving poets in these conditions was a difficult matter. For one careless word, a person could lose his life. Despite all the obstacles, people did not lose faith in themselves and literary work gained their talented writers.

Lev Moiseevich Kvitko left in memory of himself many children's works that are well known to the general public.