{{Short description|Russian politician and journalist}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2010}} thumb|Alla Gerber '''Alla Yefremovna Gerber''' ({{langx|ru|А́лла Ефре́мовна Ге́рбер}}, born 3 January 1932 in Moscow) is a Russian politician, journalist and film critic.
== Life == In 1955, Alla Gerber graduated from the faculty of law of the Moscow State University. In the following years she worked as a lawyer and a journalist. First, she worked for ''Moskovskij Komsomolets'' and was a correspondent of the literary magazine ''Yunost'' and the newspapers ''Izvestia'', ''Literaturnaya Gazeta'' and ''Moskovskaya Pravda''. Since 1963 she has written over 1000 articles and 8 books. She is also a member of the Russian Union of Journalists and former member of the USSR Union of Writers.<ref>[http://www.holocf.ru/pages/49 CV of Alla Gerber] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229094927/http://www.holocf.ru/pages/49 |date=2010-12-29 }} (Russian)</ref>
=== Political commitment === * 1989: Co-organizer of the pro-perestroika-writer movement "Aprel" ("Апрель") * 1990: First anti-fascist process in the USSR, with the conviction of a functionary of the ultra-nationalist organization Pamyat "(Russian for "memory") ended * 1991: leading member of the movement "Democratic Russia" and founder of the Moscow Anti-Fascist Centre * 1993: Members of the first State Duma of the Russian Federation in the group “Russia’s choice” ("Выбор России") * Since 1995: Research fellow of the Institute for the Economy in Transition ("Института экономики переходного периода"),<ref>[http://www.iet.ru/en Institute for the Economy in Transition] (English)</ref> president of the Holocaust Foundation, member of the editorial board of the library "Holocaust" and, among others co-author of "The history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory" * Since 2007: Member of the Public Chamber of Russia
In the Duma she dealt, among others, with laws in the following areas: * limiting the privileges of the deputies and state officials * Governmental and Non-State secondary education * banning of extremist organizations, hate mongering and National Socialist symbols * Protection of Museums and Libraries
=== Awards and honors === * Laureate of the Prize "Person of the Year 5762" of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia
== See also == * Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
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== External links == {{Commons category}} * [http://www.lenta.ru/lib/14161507/ Literature by Alla Gerber] {{in lang|ru}}
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