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Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili [a] (31 March [ O.S. 18 March] 1907 – 14 April 1943) was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family.
- Lieutenant
- Red Army
- 1941–1943
Aug 30, 2022 · Learn about the tragic life of Yakov Dzhugashvili, the oldest son of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, who was rejected, abused, and captured by the Nazis. Find out how he tried to escape, how his father refused to exchange him, and how he died in a concentration camp.
- Austin Harvey
Apr 4, 2023 · Yakov Dzhugashvili, the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, was killed by an SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943. His death was kept a secret for decades and his father never learned the truth.
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Apr 13, 2023 · Yakov Dzhugashvili, Stalin's eldest child, had a difficult relationship with his father and joined the Red Army to escape his bullying. He was captured by the Nazis and died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1943, but the circumstances of his death remain a mystery.
How did Stalin react when his firstborn son was captured by the Nazis in 1941? Why did he refuse to exchange him for a field marshal? And how did he die in a concentration camp?
- Boris Egorov
Sep 14, 2021 · On 14 September 1946, Ivan Serov, Deputy Commissar of the NKVD, reported to Joseph Stalin the results of the investigation into the death of Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili. Since 27 June 1941, Yakov Dzhugashvili had been in the army as a commander of the artillery with the rank of senior lieutenant. He vanished near the city of Liozna in ...
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth. His father, then a young revolutionary in his mid-20s, left the child to be raised by his late wife's family. In 1921, when Dzhugashvili had reached the age of fourteen, he was brought to Moscow, where his father had become a leading ...
