Witte Moses Shakman

Released
Date of birth:1882
Era:1920s
Support
Communism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Communist Party USA Socialist Party of America
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Biography

Witte Moses Shakman was born 1882 in Odesa, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Immigrated to the United States in 1915.

Born Odesa, Russia (present-day Ukraine), 1882. Jewish. Migrated to US 1915. Tailor. Former member of the Russian Federation of the Socialist Party in Chicago. Member of the Communist Party of America and then the United Communist Party. Also a member of the IWW and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Arrested Chicago. Wife (Rachael) and seven-year-old daughter Lucy (born in Paris) in Chicago. Deported to Russia March 18, 1921.

INS file 54885/47

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Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Industrial Workers of the World member) in the First Red Scare.
In exile since: Mar 18, 1921
Sentence: Deported on March 18, 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 (Industrial Workers of the World member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.

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