Exile/Camp Report given by Yurij Piusovich Laubert

On 19.03.44 the Nazis deported from the German village of STEPANOVKA, district of RASDYELYANSK, in the ODESSA region (today district of Tiraspol in Moldavia) the German family LAUBERT, whose members were all born here, and sent them to Germany:

• LAUBERT Pius Georgyevich (1914-1989),
• Elisabetha Inanovna (1916-1947),
• LAUBERT Josef (Iossif) Piusovich (born 1938), lives in Germany,
• LAUBERT Elisabetha Piusovna (born 1940), lives in the Smolensk region,
• LAUBERT Jürgen (Yurij / Georgiy) Piusovich (born 1943).

On 21.10.45 they were taken away to KRASNOYARSK into exile. The family got to the 3rd brickworks (on the left bank of the River Yenissey) and was housed in barracks No. 5 in the settlement of Innokentyevski. Each of the barracks, belonging to this brickworks, was divided into approximately 20 rooms and was occupied by Germans, Ukrainians and later Latvians and Lithuanians, as well. One of them was occupied by deported Jews.

E. I. LAUBERT lost her life during exile. Later. P. LAUBERT married an Ukrainian-German, who had also been sent into exile to the 3rd brickworks. Her name was Yekaterina Adamovna MAIER (born 1912), who had been deported together with her daughter Hilda MAIER (born 1944).

P. LAUBERT and his family were released from exile in January 1956. They stayed in Krasnoyarsk.

May 18, 1997, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society

Archives:

• copy of P. Laubert's questionnaire,
• copy of an archival certificate from the Ukrainian State Security about P. Laubert,
• copy of an archival certificate from the Ukrainian State Security about E. I. Laubert and her children. 

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