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Человек из «Мемориала». Борис Беленкин — о людях, сражающихся за историческую правду
The man from Memorial. Boris Belenkin - about people fighting for historical truth
Event by: БУДЕТ ТОЛК, Memorial Česká republika, Vidim Books, Polina Galueva
Location: FREEVENT workshops and meetings studio, Umělecká 4, Praha 7
Talks & discussions
About event
Friends, we invite you to a meeting with Boris Belenkin, historian, library director and activist of the historical, educational, charitable human rights society “Memorial”, which was liquidated in Russia.
At the meeting he will present the book “Memorial” published by Vidim Books. A Taken Home.”
Memorial is a community of public organizations dealing with human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the moment when the Nobel Committee awarded Memorial the Peace Prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was the defendant in the claim of the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises.
This book is not the history of Memorial ”, but the story of a man, Boris Belenkin, a long-term employee of Memorial and his permanent librarian. On the pages of the publication is the story of his bright fate, which, full of funny and sad things, brought Boris to Memorial and never let him go.
Conversation moderator: Ksenia Sonnaya, journalist, author of the podcast “Liquidation” about how the oldest human rights organizations in the country - International and Human Rights "Memorials" - were liquidated.
📍Date: November 29 at 19:00
Place: FREEVENT, Umělecká 4, Prague
At the meeting he will present the book “Memorial” published by Vidim Books. A Taken Home.”
Memorial is a community of public organizations dealing with human rights and the history of victims of Soviet repression. At the moment when the Nobel Committee awarded Memorial the Peace Prize, Boris Belenkin was in Moscow in the courthouse and was the defendant in the claim of the prosecutor's office, which had seized the society's premises.
This book is not the history of Memorial ”, but the story of a man, Boris Belenkin, a long-term employee of Memorial and his permanent librarian. On the pages of the publication is the story of his bright fate, which, full of funny and sad things, brought Boris to Memorial and never let him go.
Conversation moderator: Ksenia Sonnaya, journalist, author of the podcast “Liquidation” about how the oldest human rights organizations in the country - International and Human Rights "Memorials" - were liquidated.
📍Date: November 29 at 19:00
Place: FREEVENT, Umělecká 4, Prague