Gergerdt, Jakob Ivanovich, born in the hamlet of Dönhoff, canton of Balzer in
1882
Place of residence: hamlet of Strassburg , Palasovka District, Volga-German ASSR
Mode of employment: kolkhoz worker
Wife: Maria Friedrichovna Gergerdt, born in 1886
Son Ivan Yakovlevich Gergerdt, geb. 1916
Son Alexander Yakovlevich Gergerdt, born in 1924
Daughter Anna Yakovlevna Gergerdt, born in 1927
Deported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory for special resettlement in 1941 on the basis of the ukase of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium dated the 28.08.1941.
Arrived in Krasnoyarsk by train N° 839.
Lived in the village of Ischimy, Sukhobuzimsk District. The head of the family was almost 60 years old, but was still working for the kolkhoz as a blacksmith.
Son Alexander Yakovlevich was mobilized to the trud-army. He stayed in the region of Molotov from 1943 till 1946 and was working as a lumberjack.
He returned to the Sukhobuzimsk District in1946. There he began to work for the kolkhoz farm.
He was released from the status of being a special settler on the 17.01.1956.
For the time being he continued to work for the kolkhoz; after its reorganization he found a job with a sovkhoz called „Sukhobuzimskiy“.
Died in 1997. Received his rehabilitation.
Olga Vavilenko, Chied Editor of the newspaper „Country Life“ in Sukhobuzimskoe.