Information about the Kufeldt family

Dear Sirs!

Thank you to all staff members of the „Memorial“ Organization, and double thanks to the creators of the website for the wearisome but excellent and invaluable work you have done with regard to the restoration of namelists of repressed people. It was a grievous matter to read through all these pages, particularly those, mentioning the martirologue of entire families. This made one recall relatives, which have already partly fallen into oblivion.

Thank you!

In the Martirologue category I found a footnote about my uncle (at least I am quite sure that it is he who they are writing about): Arthur Arestowich Kufeld, correctly – Arthur Ernstovich Kufeld or Arthur (son of Ernst) Kufeld, born on the 11.09.1926 in der settlement of Krasnoyar, Canton Marxstadt, ASSR of the Volga Germans, German; deported to the village on Nazarovo (Arafevsk village Soviet), Birilyussy District, Krasnoyarsk Territory in 1941.

Mobilized into the trud army, to Achinsk, together with his cousin David Davidovich Wigel on the 22.11.1942. He worked for the Chelyabinsk-40 construction project. He was released from the status of being a forced laborer in 1957. Lived in the town of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan till 1995. He now lives in Germany.

Apart from him the deported to the village of Nazarowo:

• • his mother: Berta Ivanovna Kufeld, born on the 23.10.1898, German, born in Schwed, ASSR of the Volga Germans; due to her bad state of health she was not mobilized to the labor army. She had to get checked and registered with the special commandant’s office of the Birilyussy District, Krasnoyarsk Territory until  1956. She moved to the Alma-Ata Region, Talgarsk District, Kazakhstan in 1956.She died on the 25.10.1973.
• His elder brother: Robert Ernstovich Kufeld, born on the 10.07.1924, German. Born in the settlement Siedlung of Krasnoyar, Canton Marxstadt, ASSR of the Volga Germans. He was deported to the village of Nazarovo (Arefevsk village  Soviet), Birilyussy District, Krasnojarsk Territory, in 1941. In January 1942 he was mobilized into the trudarmy, to Achinsk, together with uncle David Kasporovich Wi(e)gel. He worked in the Altai Region, Yeleysk District, as a lumberjack. Due to his being ill with dysentery he was released from forced labour in the trudarmy in 1943. After he had recovered, he was called up into the labour army again. This time he was assigned to work for the timber-rafting industry in the town of Kansk. Until 1956 he had to get checked and registered with the special commandant’s  office of the Birilyussy District, Krasnoyarsk Territory. In December 1956 he and  his wife Zoya (maiden name Ignatova) removed to Kazakhstan, to the Region of Alma-Ata, Talgarsk District. He died on the 28.09.1981,
• And his sister Nina Ernstovna Kufeld, born on the 15.05.1928, German. Born in the settlement of Krasnoyar, Canton Marxstadt, ASSR of the Volga-Germans. She was deported to the village of Nazarovo (Arefevsk village Soviet), get registered with the special commandant’s office of the Birilyussy District, Krasnoyarsk Territory. Due to her marriage with the Russian Boris Mikhailovich Lalakov, she was no longer registered with the commandant’s office. In  December 1956 she, her husband and their two children removed to the region of Alma-Ata, Talgarsk District. Seit 1999 she and her daughter live in Germany.

I furthermore would like to ask you for the following: in case you have more information about the following persons or are keeping contacts with possible descendants, please kindly keep me informed on:

1. Aleksander Karlovich Kufeld, born on the 25.09.1938; as likely as not, his father Karl Karlovich and my great-grandfather Ivan Karlovich were brothers. Ivan Karlovich had a biological brother, he lived in the city of Saratov on German Street St, owned a pharmacy on the first floor of a two-storeyed house, where he worked as a  drugmaker. His sister Emilia (Amalia) Karlovna Kufeld lived on the first floor, as well.
2. 2. Elisaveta Genrikhovna Kufeld, born in 1909; her father’s name, as well as the year of her birth indicate that, maybe, she is the younger sister of may grandfather Ernst Genrikhovich Kufeld.

Yours faithfully
Svetlana Verbniak

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