Ivan Nicholaevich Brunert

AKA: John Brunert; Brunett
Released
Date of birth:1869
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 20 Days
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Ivan Nicholaevich Brunert was born 1869 in Born , Volhynia, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Worked as a bookkeeper, tailor. Immigrated to the United States in 1912.

His wife and two sons remained in Kiev when he emigrated to the U.S. By 1918 he had joined Baltimore’s Branch No. 1 of the Union of Russian Workers and served as its financial secretary. Previously affiliated with an IWW branch of Polish tailors and later with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.

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

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