Exile/Camp Report given by Elisabetha Rudolfovna Nestyorkina

Rudolf Filippovich BEKKER (or BECKER), born 1912, and his family lived in SELZ, district of RASDELYANSK, in the ODESSA region, on the banks of the River Liman, and worked on a kolkhoz (collective) farm. In autumn 1941 members of the occupying troops came to take him away from the village (he was possibly mobilized by force). Nothing is known about his further fate.

In 1944 the Nazis sent his family to Germany:

• BEKKER Mariana (Mariyana) Wendelinovna (1912-1986),
• BEKKER Jewgeny Rudolfovich (born 1932), lives in Germany,
• BEKKER Rudolf Rudolfovich (born 1935), lives in Krasnoyarsk,
• BEKKER Elisabetha Rudolfovna (born 1937), lives in Krasnoyarsk,
• BEKKER Erwin Rudolfovich (born 1940), lives in Krasnoyarsk,
• BEKKER Eduard Rudolfovich (1942-1946).

They got to Saxony and lived at a farmer's house in the country. In October 1945 they had to get on a train and were given the explanation that they would be taken back to their home towns; instead, they were deported straight away into exile, to KRASNOYARSK.

On 29.12.45 they had to get off the train and were housed in barracks, in the ship-yard (on the right bank of the river), in Basar Street. During the exile M. BEKKER worked in School No. 29 as a cleaning woman. Her younger son lost his life during exile. Early in 1956 the family was released. M. BEKKER and her children stayed to live in Krasnoyarsk.

July 25, 1996, recorded by V.S. Birger, Krasnoyarsk, "Memorial" Society

Archives:

• copy of the rehabilitation certificate of E. (R.) Bekker,
• copy of an archival certificate from the Administration of the Ukraininan Security Service,
• copy of the questionnaire from the "exiled's" file (dossier) of M. (W.) Bekker.

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