My grandfather Gustav Gedaly was arrested in early 1944 and deported
to Petropovosk by the Russians. I was able to obtain records of his
arrest and depositions by friends and colleagues. My grandmother and
mother received letters from him in 1952 describing his life in
Petropovlosk. He was living a solitary life using his Pharmacist
skills. He appealed in 1951 and was denied freedom. We were told he
died in April of 1952.
My contact at the National Holocaust Museum told me if he was arrested
in Czernowitz that's where the original records would be. Many records
were sent to a central location when the Soviet Union fell and
prisoner records were opened and reviewed declaring certain prisoners
"rehabilitated." He was not one of the "rehabilitated" and his records
stayed in Czernowitz. That's another long story.
In 2010 I received the records through a "clandestine" operation when
the Head of Records agreed to deliver a CD with all his information to
Zoya. She was supposed to meet him in the park but he sent his wife
instead. He wanted me to pay $70/page for a 70-page file. That was
probably half a year's salary. My contact at the museum said
absolutely not. I ended up paying $250 which was wired via Western
Union to Zoya who traded the money for the disk.
It was inconceivable to me that in 2010 I was still dealing with such
nonsense. My experience with the Records Department harkened back to
"cold war" experiences. They gave me almost everything I needed for
closure except where he is buried.
At this point in time, I am still searching for his final resting
place hoping to say Kadish.
If anyone has any information about how I might go about getting the
final piece of information please share.
Ilana
Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 11, 2015, at 9:04 AM, alexander rosner <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> On June 13 there have been several trains full with deported people from Czernowitz and also from other towns in Bukowina.
> My grandparents were deported from Storozhinetz.
> They all have been sent to different places in Siberia and elswhere, not all to the Komi Autonomous Republic.
> My grandparents were slated for the area of Komsomolsk on the Amur, which they never reached, as they have been dropped in Kazakhstan.
> Others were deported to the Vasiugan region in west Siberia or Tomsk, others to Vorkuta. Probably there have been other regions as well, where deportees from Bukovina ended.
>
> By the way, neither Komi nor Vorkuta are located in Siberia, both being in the European part of Russia.
>
> Alex
>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
>> Von: M.Goldberger <marina778_at_bezeqint.net>
>> An: 'Czernowitz Genealogy and History' <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
>> CC:
>> Gesendet: 21:32 Sonntag, 9.August 2015
>> Betreff: [Cz-L] Siberia
>>
>> Dyuri...
>>
>> Deportations to Siberia began in the first weeks after the Soviet occupation in
>> 1940, at that time political activists, Zionists etc were detained. Each group
>> was sent to a different place in Siberia.
>> There is little information about what happened on June 13,1941. According to
>> Yad Vashem, 10,000 Jews were deported during this night to Siberia by the NKVD
>> forces. Those were the Jews who had number 39 (meaning "bourgeois")
>> written in their ID card when they changed their Romanian ID card to Soviet one.
>> Few survived the winter of 1941-42. Recently I have found that they were
>> deported on this day to labor camps in Siberia, situated in the "Komi
>> Republic".
>> https://www.google.co.il/maps/place/Komi+Republic,+Russia/_at_63.8094889,55.828489,5z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4475b8cd9d17ae4b:0x102a3a583f194c0
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marc
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