1 Reply Latest reply on May 30, 2017 5:56 AM by sfordstark@yahoo.com

Deportations of Immigrants - Palmer Raids in 1919-1920

sfordstark@yahoo.com Apr 15, 2017 4:05 PM

We are trying to find out information about a man who was deported as a result of the Palmer Raids in 1919-1920.

Several hundred immigrant people, mainly men, were deported from the U.S. at this time.

The man we are researching was born in 1889 in the Russian Empire (Poland) at “Lamaz, Russia” (spelling?) per his U.S. Draft Registration from 1917 to 1918 (which is not completely legible).

He immigrated to the U.S. sometime between 1912 – 1918, but was deported sometime before 1921, as part of the Palmer Raids. He was forced to leave his wife and children in the New York City area.

Based on this information, can you help us with a list of the names of the people deported between 1919 and 1921? (Hopefully we could recognize his actual name) And where the people were sent?

Or any connections to towns in Poland/Russia?

We realize the spellings may be incorrect or changed.

Or any ideas about web sites or research references that we could use?

We would like to find out his story and what happened to him.

Re: Deportations of Immigrants - Palmer Raids in 1919-1920

sfordstark@yahoo.com May 30, 2017 5:56 AM (in response to sfordstark@yahoo.com)

We found this short newspaper article from 1921:
Deportation - New York Herald - Jan 1921 - Joel Stark - column 2 - middle section
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045774/1921-01-11/ed-1/seq-23/#date1=1914&index=1&rows=20&words=Joel+Stark&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=New+York&date2=1924&proxtext=%22Joel+Stark%22&y=8&x=17&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

We still would like to found where in Russia he ended up. But we are pretty sure that he became a commissar and probably would have been shot as a a result of the "Commissar Order":

"Volume 7. Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars (“Commissar Order”) (June 6, 1941)
...the so-called Commissar Order, which instructed the German military leadership – in clear violation of international law – to engage in the systematic persecution and murder of Soviet political commissars, sealed the cooperation of the Wehrmacht with the annihilation campaign of the SS. Hitler’s formal repeal of the order on March 6, 1942 – partly an attempt to accommodate the opposition of some military commanders – did not change anything about the way Germany conducted war during “Operation Barbarossa.”

Any idea about how to actually track him from 1921 until 1941 (probably) would be appreciated.
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks
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