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Title: Berta Tubisman Author: Sergei Ovsiannikov Date: September 2020 Language: en Topics: biography, Soviet Union, Kate Sharpley Library Source: Retrieved on 4th June 2022 from https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/q83dbz Notes: Published in KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 102. Translated by Malcolm Archibald.
Arrested in February 1937. Two years and eight months under
interrogation. That covers the whole period of the “Great Terror” with
its torture methods. This woman in her fifties evidently refused to
confess to anything. Otherwise she would have received a death sentence.
She managed to last till the “Beria thaw” and was rewarded with five
years. Who can beat that?
—A. V. Dubovik
Berta Israilevna (Betya Isrulevna (Srulevna)) Tubisman (1884, Vinnitsa,
Podolskaya province —?) A seamstress by trade, she had no formal
education. In 1903 she joined the Bund. In 1905 she was on the executive
of the Union of Confectioners of Odessa. In 1906 she became an
anarchist, and was arrested the same year, being incarcerated in the
Odessa prison.
From 1908 she lived in emigration in Switzerland, while taking part in
the anarchist movement. In April, 1917, she arrived in Petrograd on the
famous “sealed” train.
Upon returning to Odessa, she was one of the organizers of the Red
Guard, and took part in the January [1918] uprising there. In 1919 she
was active in the underground work of the “Foreign Bureau,” carrying on
agitation among soldiers and sailors (French, Greek) of the armed forces
of the Entente. She was a member of the “Nabat” Group of Anarchists of
Peresyp. [Peresyp is a district of Odessa.] In the second half of 1919,
she took part in the anti-Denikinist underground.
In the 1920s she worked in a confectionary factory. In 1929 she took
part in an illegal anarchist conference held in Odessa on January 1
which was disguised as a New Year’s Day celebration. This led to her
arrest and she was sentenced by a Collegium of the OGPU to exile in
Central Asia for three years, which she served in Aulie-Ata [today
Taraz], Syr-Daryinsky okrug.
Upon finishing her term, she received a “minus 6” [forbidden to live in
six major Soviet cities]. She lived in Voronezh, then in Orel, working
as a milliner. She took part in the anarchist under-ground and
corresponded with the IWA [International Workers’ Association] Relief
Fund for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in
Russia.
She was arrested again on January 27, 1934, and sentenced by
plenipotentiaries of the OGPU for the Central Black Earth Region on May
14, 1934, for participation in counter-revolutionary anarchist work to
three years of exile in the Northern krai [region]. The sentence was
served in Arkhangelsk. She was arrested again on February 18, 1937, and
sentenced by a Special Council of the NKVD on October 4, 1939, to five
years in a Corrective Labour Camp. Her subsequent fate is unknown.