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Post by tessapilipczuk on May 23, 2014 4:28:21 GMT -7
 My grandfather and brother was captured and taken to a labor camp to chop wood in Russia or Siberia. This was his release certificate I believe and wondered if it gave any details..? Kind regards,Tessa |
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Post by Jaga on May 23, 2014 7:29:23 GMT -7
Tessa, could you post a better resolution copy? I can only see what was written by use of pen - name, when and where he was born etc.... it would be good to read a fine print
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Post by Eric on May 23, 2014 14:46:38 GMT -7
The quality of the scan is pretty bad, but at least some of it is legible here. This is actually a travel document identifying himself as a Polish citizen, born in what used to be the Russian Empire but now a foreign country, and this document gives him to travel freely throughout the USSR except for border zones and closed cities that Soviet citizens weren't allowed to go into unless they worked there.
There's nothing to indicate any arrest record here, but considering it's issued in Novosibirsk region, it's likely that he was arrested and sent to a labor camp for some period of time. This document, however, doesn't indicate that, but merely says he's free to go pretty much wherever he'd like and live his life.
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USSR People's Committee for Internal Affairs
NKVD Division
Novosibirskiy region
4 September 1941
CERTIFICATION
The underwritten citizen Pilipchuk Sergei Maksimovich, born in the year 1913 in the village Pakolupy (?), Liubelsk voyevodship, <...> by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet <...> as a Polish citizen, has the right to free travel within the territory of the USSR, with the exception of border zones, forbidden zones <... ... ...>
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