Issay Volkov

AKA: George; Wolkoff
Released
Date of birth:1890
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 0 Days
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Issay Volkov was born 1890 in Kovno, Russia (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania). Immigrated to the United States in 1908.

Born 1890, Kovno, Russia (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania). Painter. In Russia had belonged to the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Migrated to US 1908. 1916 joined the Union of Russian Workers branch in Waterbury, Connecticut until it dissolved in 1917; March 1919 joined the IWW local there. 1919 a member of the Union of Russian Citizens (an umbrella organization of Russian progressives). Arrested during the first Palmer Raids, November 21, 1919. Deported on the Buford. Subsequent activities unknown.

INS file 54709/171

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: Nov 21, 1919
Incarcerated: Nov 21, 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

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