Vilensky Semyon Samuilovich

Definition:

Soviet dissident, poet, memoirist, publisher. Founder and head of the historical and literary society "Return" and the journal of prisoners of totalitarian systems "Volya"

Years of life: 1928-2016
Reproduction methods:

Born in 1928 in Moscow; student of the philological faculty of Lviv University. Lived in Lviv. Arrested in 1948. Sentenced by the Special Specialized Department of the USSR MGB in May 1949 under Articles 17-58-8, 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years in a labor camp. He spent most of his sentence in Berlag in Kolyma. Released in 1955. Rehabilitated in September 1956.

Info:
Жертвы политического террора в СССР. Интернет-база. // Общество Мемориал [Электрон. ресурс]. URL: http://base.memo.ru/ (дата обращения 2009 – 2025 гг.).

Documents (1)

Fund 02 (Б-1) / Inventory 1 / Case Петкевич Тамара Владиславовна (Владимировна)
3. Article by Cathy A. Frierson "An Unshakeable Faith in Humanity", published in Women's Review of Books, Volume 28, Issue 5, September-October 2011, pp. 6-7, about the book of memoirs of T.V. Petkevich published in the USA and about her fate; in English.