Dina Issaakovna Kaminskaya

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dina Issaakowna Kaminskaja ( Russian Дина Исааковна Каминская ; born January 13, 1919 in Yekaterinoslav ; † July 7, 2006 in Falls Church ) was a Soviet - American lawyer and human rights activist .

Life

Kaminskaja's parents came from poor Jewish families in the province. Her father and older sister were lawyers . Kaminskaja studied at the Moscow Law Institute, founded in 1931, graduating in 1941. She then worked as a lawyer and became a member of the Moscow City College of Lawyers.

Kamenskaja was Juli Markowitsch Daniels ' lawyer in 1965 , but was not allowed to represent him in the trial against him and Andrei Donatowitsch Sinyawski . Kaminskaya was then involved as a lawyer in court cases against Soviet dissidents . She defended Vladimir Bukovsky after the demonstration on 22 January 1967, Yuri Timofeyevich Galanskow in the process of four against the journalist Alexander Ginzburg , the poet Galanskow, the National Socialist anarchists Alexei Alexandrovich Dobrowolski and literary figure Vera Iossifowna Laschkowa (1967), Anatoly Tichonowitsch Martschenko (1968), Larissa Bogoras and Pawel Michailowitsch Litvinow after the demonstration of the Seven on August 25, 1968 after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops (1968) and Mustafa Abduldschemil Dschemiljew and Ilya Jankelewitsch Gabai (1969-1970). Kaminskaja's speeches were circulated in samizdat .

In 1970, the Moscow College of Attorneys initiated disciplinary proceedings against Kaminskaya. In 1971 her license to conduct political trials was withdrawn. She was thus excluded from the new trial against Bukowski in 1971 and also from the trials against Sergei Adamowitsch Kowaljow (1975) and Natan Sharanski (1975), in which she participated as a consultant. The KGB observed her activities and those of her husband, the legal scholar Konstantin Mikhailovich Simis.

from left: Julija Iossifowna Vishnevskaya , Lyudmila Michailowna Alexejewa , Kamenskaja, Kronid Arkadjewitsch Lyubarsky , Munich , 1978

In January 1973 Kaminskaja's son Dimitri Simes emigrated with his wife to the USA , where he became a publicly active political scientist . After interrogation by the KGB and the threat of arrest, Kamenskaya and her husband were forced to emigrate to the USA in 1977. There she continued her human rights activities. She was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and appeared on Radio Svoboda and the Voice of America . The English translation of their memoirs appeared in 1982, while the Russian version followed in 1984.

Web links

Commons : Dina Kaminskaya  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Radio Svoboda: Десять лет назад ушла из жизни одна из самых известных советских адветских адветских адвокорих адвокорих адвокорих адвокорих адвокорих адвокорих адвокорих адвокордов Свявкана on January 29, 2020 (accessed on January 29th.
  2. ↑ Moscow Helsinki Group: Каминская Дина Исааковна (accessed January 29, 2020).
  3. ↑ a b 10 июля в Вашингтоне умерла Дина Каминская (accessed January 29, 2020).
  4. ↑ Еврейская Украина: 10 фактов о евреях Днепра (accessed January 29, 2020).
  5. ↑ Kaminskaya, Dina: Final judgment: my life as a Soviet defense attorney . Simon & Schuster , New York 1982, ISBN 0-671-24739-5 ( [1] [accessed January 29, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Каминская, Дина: Записки адвоката . Khronika Press, Benson (Vermont) 1984 ( [2] [PDF; accessed January 29, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Kaminskaya, Dina Issaakovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Каминская, Дина Исааковна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-American lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ekaterinoslav
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2006
Place of death Falls Church