We are holding a memorial meeting for Elena Bonner, the veteran Russian human rights advocate and widow of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Andrei Sakharov, who died at the age of 88 on June 18 of this year.
Please join Elena Georgievna's family and friends at NYU Law School, the meeting is open to the public.
Speakers include Elena's children Tatiana Yankelevich and Alexey Semyonov; Robert L. Bernstein, president of Random House for 25 years, founder of Human Rights Watch and currently chair of a new organization, Advancing Human Rights; David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker; Carl Gershman, director of National Endowment for Democracy; Felice Gaer, director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights and many more.
Natan Sharansky, a colleague of Elena's and former Soviet political prisoner and Israeli government minister, has sent a 3-minute video which will be shown, along with a slide presentation about Elena's life.
The service will take place TONIGHT, Friday, September 16, 2011, from 7:00-9:00 pm, in the Tishman Auditorium of Vanderbilt Hall of NYU School of Law, which is located at 40 Washington Square South, between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets.
Please feel free to share this with those you feel might wish to attend.
For more detailed parking and transportation information, please visit http://www.law.nyu.edu/specialevents/locationguide/vanderbilthall/index.htm
If you can't make it, email me at [email protected] to get a copy of the program and a special publication prepared by Edward Kline, editor of Khronika Press, Elena Bonner In Her Own Words and Andrei's.
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