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There is criminal case file deposited concerning Gizbreht [so it's written in Russian] Aron Aronovich [= son of Aron in Russian] born 1870, German by origin, descending from vil. Kantserovka, Khortina [corr. Khortitsa] rural community, Alexandrovsk [=Zaporozhye] county, Yekaterinoslaw [=Dnepropetrowsk] gubernia [province], lived in the settlement of Nadezhdovka, rural soviet [council] Morgenau, Issilkul district, Omsk region, worked at collective farm "Landmann".
By decision of the troyka [off-presence quasi-"court"] of the Omsk region' UNKVD [NKVD, i.e. "Internal Affairs People's Comissariat", regional branch] convicted October 2, 1937 for anti-soviet agitation (without referring to any Criminal Code article [paragraph]) to highest punishment measure - shooting, the sentence carried out October 5, 1937 at Omsk, burial place isn't indicated in the file.
The death has been registered by Issilkul district ZAGS, record N 1 dated January 25, 1991.
Gizbreht A.A. has been rehabilitated [cleared] by the Presidium of Omsk regional court September 25, 1959.
There is an information in the file that Gizbreht A.A. as former kulak [i.e. efficient farmer] was stripped of the electoral rights in 1927-1930 for exploiting of hired labour, he had been exiled in 1931, escaped 1932 from exile. There are relatives abroad who went out from USSR: four brothers in America, sister and son-in-law in Germany.
There are neither photographs nor personal documents in the file.
Attached is the xerocopy of Gizbreht A.A.' detainee questionnaire dated September 11, 1937.
Signed: Head of department V.V.Toloknov
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What may be added to the above informations when reading the "DQ":
property before 1929 - a house, 7 horses, 6 young ones, 3 cows, 3 young ones, agricultural mashinery;
tsar army service - no;
white army service - no;
red army service - no;
distinctive external signs: left eye blind;
by whom was arrested: ass. operrepresentative Lugovskoy.
Questionnaire filled by the head of district NKVD branch (i.e. at Issilkul) September 11, 1937.
Translation and explanations by Vlad. Birger, February 24, 2001.