Arseny Roginsky
Arseny Roginsky · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Historian who founded and chaired Memorial, the human-rights society (Nobel Peace Prize 2022)
1946, Velsk, Soviet Union (now Russia) — 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel
Soviet Union · Russia
Arseny Roginsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Historian who founded and chaired Memorial, the human-rights society (Nobel Peace Prize 2022)
Born in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family — his father was arrested and died in the Gulag system — Roginsky became a historian and dissident, imprisoned in the early 1980s for his samizdat historical work. He co-founded and long chaired Memorial, the human-rights society dedicated to documenting Soviet-era repression and defending civil liberties in Russia. Memorial was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize; Roginsky, who died in 2017, had been central to building it into one of Russia's most important civil-society institutions.
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Historian who founded and chaired Memorial, the human-rights society (Nobel Peace Prize 2022)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners
