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Exile / Camp Report given by Valerij Augustovich Krosch

Born in 1954. The family name got falsified in the registration documents, in actual fact it is Grosch.

The parents, August Andreevich Grosch (born in 1903) and Emilia Davidovna Grosch (born 1911) lived in the hamlet of Grimm, Saratov. Region They had their own house and a fruit orchard with apple trees. Apart from this they were growing water melons. In September 1941 they were deported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the village of Yelan (Yalan) in Yeniseysk District. There they lived with their children Selma (born in 1939) and Alexander (born in 1934).

In 1942 the father was mobilized to the trudarmy and was taken to the Kraslag. Uncle Filipp Andreevich Grosch was arrested, as well. Uncle Andrei and his family were sent to Ustyug, where he was mobilized to the labor army, too. The sister lived in Podtyossovo, she was sent to the Far North, to Dudinka.

The following information about the family – their relatives - was found in the martirologue: Grosch (Liubimova), Irma Augustovna (born on the 10.05.1935). Native of and living in the hamlet of Grimm, governorate of Saratov. Was deported on the 19.09.1941 to the village of Ilinka, Nizhne-Ingashsk District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, together with her family – father Grosch, August (1902-1941), mother Grosch, Lisa (born in 1904), brother Grosch, August Augustovitch (1927-03.07.1944), an invalid due to his bad ability to see, the sisters Grosch (Zimmermann), Lisa Augustovna (born 1930) and Grosch, Ida Augustovna (1938-19.01.1943). They arrived in the little settlement of Ust-Khantaika, Dudinka District, Autonomous Taimyr Region, on 21.08.1942. In 1954, as a result of a call from some relatives, they received the permission to leave for Dudinka District and remove to Yemelyanovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory.
L.O. Petri, V.T. Petri, So war es im Taimyr-Gebiet

According to V.As information, Vladimir Schwab and Karl Andreevich Weber (he could not be interviewed as he were absent) live in Yeniseysk, too.

Interviewed by Aleksei Babyj.

(AB – Annotations by Aleksei Babiy, Krasnoyarsk “Memorial” organization).
Ninth expedition of historical illumination and human rights, Yeniseysk, 2013.


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