Background
Markish, Ester was born in 1912 in Ekaterinoslav(now Dnepropetrovsk).
Markish, Ester was born in 1912 in Ekaterinoslav(now Dnepropetrovsk).
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History.
Married Perets Markish. As a ‘wife of an enemy of the people’, she was deported to Kazakhstan with her two sons. Returned to Moscow after Stalin’s death, 1954.
Left the USSR, 1972. Settled in Israel. Wrote about the execution of Jewish writers after World War II in Как Ikh Ubivali, Israel, 1982.