Alexander Schatz

AKA: or Shatz; Harry
Released
Date of birth:1884
Era:1910s
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers
Alexander Schatz

Biography

Alexander Schatz was born 1884 in Kiev, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Worked as a printer. Immigrated to the United States in 1909.

Around 1917 he joined Branch No. 1 of the Union of Russian Workers in New York. A member of the editorial board of Khleb i Volia and brother of fellow URW member Boris Schatz, he was arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919. During questioning he declared, “I consider myself a citizen and a laborer wherever I work and wherever I live.” He was deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919, leaving behind his wife and stepchild in the U.S.

Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Ellis Island Immigration Station
Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare.
Arrested: November 1919
Incarcerated: November 1919
Released: Dec 21, 1919
In exile since: Dec 21, 1919
Sentence: Held from arrest until the deportation sailed: deported to Soviet Russia aboard the Buford transport on December 21, 1919, with the detention (principally at Ellis Island) recorded as the custody span. Charges as recorded: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.
Institution State: New York

Related Cases

Abe Brook Abe Brook Efim Kolesnikov Efim Kolesnikov David Maksimovich Elak-Berman David Maksimovich Elak-Berman Dora Lipkin Dora Lipkin Hyman Perkus Hyman Perkus Ivan Dubov Ivan Dubov Ivan Nabagez Ivan Nabagez Ivan Veremiuk Ivan Veremiuk Timofey Pavlovich Bukhanov Timofey Pavlovich Bukhanov Ivan Denczyk