Victims of Political Terror in the USSR

[Ruskie]

This is an alphabetical list of names of people arrested on political charges by State Security and sentenced to death, imprisonment in camps, prisons or in exile.

The database was compiled from regional "Memory Books", as well as other sources, and serves to preserve the memory of the victims and to help people reconstruct the history of their families.

It mainly covers the period 1930 to 1953 and not all repressed from all areas are included. It is a work in progress.

Information about each person is brief and varies, but may include details such as:
name, year of birth, schooling, where lived, when arrested, offence, sentence, penalty (eg shot), where buried, when rehabilitated, source of information (usually a Memory Book from a specific region).

http://lists.memo.ru/index1.htm

I hope you find your missing family members included on the list.

[Redroger]

Is there any similar information available on the earlier Tsarist Pogroms of the 19th and early 20th centuries please?

[Ruskie]

Sorry RR, but I don't know the answer to that.

There are some slightly earlier records in the database (I think I remember a couple from the 1920s) so it might be worth you checking your names.

The memory books must have been kept up to date - many were rehabilitated in the 1950s/60s, and I saw a couple from the 1980s.

If this kind of database is something which is being undertaken, and if earlier records survive you might expect them to eventually be transcribed and put online. I believe this database  originally came in CD form.

I've got part way through one of my family names and discovered there are duplicates, which I was not aware of when I posted this.

I will see if I can find out if there is something similar for earlier years.

[Redroger]

Thanks for this. My interest is in the antecedents of a late friend whose ancestors supposedly came from the Baltic territories pre 1900