Ivan Denczyk

AKA: John
Released
Date of birth:1884
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 21 Days
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers
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Biography

Ivan Sergeyenko was born 1888 in Russia. Immigrated to the United States in 1913.

His wife remained in Russia when he emigrated. Joined the Union of Russian Workers branch in Donora, Pennsylvania. Allegedly betrayed by former URW member Stefan Zhuk, after Zhuk was arrested in Donora for stealing chickens. (Neither his INS file nor his FBI file confirm this, although he was identified by an undercover Bureau of Investigation agent, Michael Yankovitch.) Found in possession of URW literature when arrested, he was allegedly “beaten half to death” by police. Convicted under Pennsylvania’s sedition law, he was then deported to Russia February 26, 1921.

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: January 1920
Incarcerated: January 1920
Released: Jan 22, 1921
In exile since: Feb 26, 1921
Sentence: Deported on February 26, 1921. No arrest date or detention span is documented, so nothing is added to the imprisonment counter. 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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