Semjon Samuilowitsch Wilensky

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Semjon Samuilowitsch Wilenski ( Russian Семён Самуилович Виленский ; scientific transliteration Semën Samuilovič Vilenskij , also Semen Samuilovich Vilenskii ; born June 13, 1928 in Moscow ; † April 23, 2016 ibid) was a Russian writer and editor. At the center of his literary work and his editing activities were the totalitarian Soviet state, the prisoners of the Gulag and the resistance in the Gulag.

Life

Wilenski studied at Lomonosov University from 1945 . In 1948 he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp. He was first in the infamous Sukhanovka prison , then in a penal camp in Dalstroi on the Kolyma . In 1955 he was released from prison.

In 1963 he founded with B. Babina (Б. Бабина), p Gandlewskaja (З. Гандлевская), P. Mjasnikowa (П. Мясникова), I. Alexachin (И. Алексахин) and other political prisoners, the Kolyma camaraderie ( Колымское товарищество ), which was officially registered in Moscow in 1990 as the historical-literary society “Return” ( Возвращение ) and which he headed from then on.

He was the editor of the volume The Children of the Gulag , which contains memories, diaries and letters from children of Soviet " enemies of the people " (English translation by Deborah Hoffman).

literature

  • Nanci Adler: The Gulag Survivor. Beyond the Soviet System , Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, London 2002, ISBN 0-7658-0071-3 , pp. 125-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://philologist.livejournal.com/8408302.html
  2. ↑ http://berkovich-zametki.com/Avtory/Vilensky.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/3178413/#persons
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.centerforliterarytranslation.org
personal data
SURNAME Wilensky, Semjon Samuilowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Виленский, Семён Самуилович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2016
Place of death Moscow