Dina Isaakovna Kaminskaya ( January 13, 1919 , Yekaterinoslav - July 7, 2006 [1] , Falls Church , Virginia , USA ) - a Soviet lawyer and human rights activist , known for her participation in trials of the 1960s - began 1970s over Soviet dissidents , as well as an American writer - a memoirist and radio presenter of broadcasts on human rights topics. Member of the Moscow Helsinki Group [2] since 1989 .
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 Julia Vishnevskaya , Lyudmila Alekseeva , Dina Kaminskaya and Kronid Lyubarsky (from left to right). Soviet dissidents in exile. Munich, 1978. | |
| Birth name | Dina Isaakovna Kaminsky |
| Date of Birth | January 13, 1919 |
| Place of Birth | Ekaterinoslav |
| Date of death | July 7, 2006 (aged 87) |
| A place of death | Falls Church , Virginia , USA |
| Citizenship |  USSR  USA |
| Occupation | human rights activist |
| Father | Isaac Efimovich Kaminsky |
| Mother | Olga Karlovna Kaminskaya |
| Spouse | Konstantin Mikhailovich Simis |
| Children | Dmitry Konstantinovich Simis (Simes) |
The wife of lawyer Konstantin Simis , the mother of political scientist Dmitry Simes .
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Dina Kaminsky was born on January 13, 1919 in Yekaterinoslav . Her parents, Isaac Efimovich and Olga Karlovna Kaminsky, came from poor provincial Jewish families. Father and elder sister were lawyers , which significantly influenced the choice of Dina’s profession [1] .
In 1941 she graduated from the Moscow Law Institute and began working as a lawyer [1] .
She was a member of the Moscow City Bar Association.
She participated as a lawyer in trials of Soviet dissidents , in which she defended Vladimir Bukovsky (the case of the demonstration on January 22, 1967), Yuri Galanskov (the “ process of four ”, 1967), Anatoly Marchenko (1968), Larisa Bogoraz and Pavel Litvinov (the case about the "demonstration of seven" , August 25, 1968), Mustafa Dzhemilev and Ilya Gabay (1969-1970) [1] [3] .
Dina Kaminsky’s speeches “Justice or Reprisal?”, “Process of Four”, “Noon”, “Tashkent Process” were included in the collection and distributed by “ samizdat ”.
In 1970, the Presidium of the Moscow College of Advocates against Kaminsky initiated a disciplinary case, which was considered for exactly one year. In 1971 , in the thirty-first year of advocacy, Kaminsky received the first penalty and from that day was denied admission to political affairs. She was not allowed to repeat the trial of Vladimir Bukovsky (1971) and to the trials of Sergei Kovalev (1975) and Nathan Sharansky (1975). Dina Isaakovna no longer took part in political processes, but gave professional advice on such matters. The activities of Kaminsky and her husband became the reason for the increased interest in them of the bodies of the KGB of the USSR [1] .
In January 1973, the son of Dina Kaminsky and Konstantin Simis Dmitry Simis (Simes) and his wife emigrated to the United States [1] .
In 1977, Dina Kaminskaya and her husband were interrogated by the KGB and, under the threat of arrest, were forced to emigrate to the United States [1] .
While in exile, Dina Kaminskaya continued her advocacy work - she was a member of the Moscow Helsinki group and the host of programs on the Liberty and Voice of America radio stations, and also wrote a memoir book, Notes by a Lawyer (1984) [1] [4] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Gulnara Bekirova . Dina Kaminsky. The fate of the lawyer. - Ten years ago, one of the most famous Soviet lawyers, Dina Kaminskaya, author of Radio Liberty, passed away. The official website of Radio Liberty ( USA ) // svoboda.org (July 8, 2016)
- ↑ Kaminsky Dina Isaakovna (1919–2006). Biography. Official website of the Moscow Helsinki Group // mhg.ru
- ↑ Obituary. On July 10, Dina Kaminsky died in Washington. The official website of the International historical and educational human rights and charitable society Memorial // memo.ru (July 13, 2006) (unavailable link from 10/22/2018 [341 days]) Archived July 29, 2009 to Wayback Machine
- ↑ Jewish Ukraine: 10 facts about the Jews of the Dnieper (former Dnepropetrovsk) . Non-profit Internet project of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine // jewishnews.com.ua (August 28, 2017). Archived on October 18, 2016.
Literature
- Dina Kaminsky. “Notes by a lawyer” (Benson, Khronika Press, 1984) . // mccme.ru . M .: "New Publishing House", ISBN 978-5-98379-119-0 (June 16, 2009). Date of treatment February 17, 2016. Archived on April 9, 2012.
- The Thaw Generation. 1990 ed. USA ISBN 0-8229-5911-9 , ISBN 978-0-8229-5911-3 . Second Edition - M., 2006.