David Maksimovich Elak-Berman

AKA: A. Emelianoff

Released

Date of birth:1891

Date of death:1941

Age:50^{† Deceased}

Era:1910s

Time in Exile:

21 Years 11 Days

Support

Anarchism Union of Russian Workers

Biography

David Maksimovich Elak-Berman was born 1891 in Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1908.

Joined the Union of Russian Workers branch in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, where he served as branch treasurer. Arrested during the Palmer Raids and deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

After deportation, settled briefly in Petrograd but soon fled to Poland. In 1923, with aid from comrades in North America, migrated to Montevideo, Uruguay, where he joined the anarchist Delo Truda Group and remained an active anarchist until his death in 1941.

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

Exile ended: 1941

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. The exile is recorded as ending at death. 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

David Maksimovich Elak-Berman

Biography

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