Ivan Veremiuk

AKA: Iwan; John; Vermenuk; Veramanuk; Veremink

Released

Date of birth:1893

Era:1910s

Time Imprisoned:

1 Month 16 Days

Support

Anarchism Union of Russian Workers

Biography

Ivan Veremiuk was born 1893 in Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Immigrated to the United States in 1911.

Born 1893, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1911. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Maspeth, Long Island circa 1916; became branch secretary, but apparently left the organization circa 1918. Also a member of the independent Brotherhood of Metal Workers. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids, November 5, 1919, at his workplace in New York. Claimed he was “beaten up” and “treated barbarously.” Deported on the Buford. Subsequent activities unknown.

INS file 54709/117

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 5, 1919

Incarcerated: Nov 5, 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

Ivan Veremiuk

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