Jakow Jakowlewitsch Etinger
Jakow Jakowlewitsch Etinger ( Russian Яков Яковлевич Этингер ; born August 12, 1929 in Minsk ; † August 4, 2014 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet or Russian economist and historian.
Life
Etinger was born Jakow Lasarewitsch Siterman . His parents died in the Holocaust . He was adopted by the physician Jakow Giljarijewitsch Etinger , a famous cardiologist who later fell victim to the so-called medical conspiracy , and renamed himself accordingly.
He began studying at the History Faculty of Moscow University . In 1950 he and his adoptive father were arrested for making critical statements ("defamatory inventions") about Stalin and Beria . After the adoptive father died in prison, Jakow J. Etinger was sentenced on May 17, 1951 to ten years in a labor camp. In 1954 he was released and rehabilitated. After graduating, he worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .
After 1989 he took part in the founding of the human rights organization " Memorial ".
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakow Jakowlewitsch Etinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jakow Jakowlewitsch Etinger on gulag.memorial.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Трагическая судьба Якова Этингера. Biography on rubezh.eu (Russian, accessed January 7, 2015).
- ↑ Michael Parrish: The Lesser Terror: Soviet State Security, 1939-1953. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996. ISBN 978-0-275-95113-9 . P. 248.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Etinger, Jakow Jakowlewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Этингер, Яков Яковлевич; Siterman, Jakow Lasarewitsch (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian economist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 2014 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |