Gerasim Konikh (John Konik)
Born Grodnia, Russia (present-day Poland). Laborer. Migrated to US 1913. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Youngstown, Ohio in 1919. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford. Circa 1925, sentenced to five years in Solovki prison camp as an anarchist; 1930, “entirely in broken health,” sentenced to three years of internal exile in Arkhangelsk.
INS file 54709/545; FBI file OG 378976
See also: Bulletin of the Relief Fund of the International Working Men’s Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia, November-December 1930
Aleksandr Konon (Александр Конон; Alexander Kornen; Konol)
Born 1894, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1913. Member of the Newark branch of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/352
Pavel Konon (Павел Конон; Paul Konon; Pawel; Konen)
Born Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Miner. Migrated to US 1914. Wife and four children in Russia. Member of the Communist Party of America. Arrested Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Deported February 1, 1921.
FBI file OG 389419
John Konopatsky (Иван Конопацкий; aka Anton Konopatsky)
Born 1895, Russia. Migrated to US 1914. Wife and three children in US. Member of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party of America; then Bayonne, New Jersey’s Russian Branch of the Communist Party. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids in January, 1920 in Newark. Deported January 22, 1921.
INS file 54860/163; FBI file OG 384085
Ignatz Konoval (Ignance Konowal; Ignace)
Born 1894, Russia. Polish. Migrated to US 1913. Member of the Polish Branch of the Communist Party of America in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Arrested during second Palmer Raids, January 1920. Deported December 23, 1920.
See: The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey), December 22, 1920
Benjamin Kontrowitz (Kontorovich; Kantorovitch; Berl Kanterowicz; Berek; aka B. Kanter)
Born 1882, Ekaterinoslav, Russia (present-day Dnipro, Ukraine). Silk weaver. Migrated to US 1916. Married with one son in Paterson, New Jersey. Former member of the Left Wing of the Socialist Party of America; joined the Russian Federation of the Communist Party of America in 1919; recording secretary, Executive Board member, and lecturer for its Paterson branch. Also served as delegate to the First Convention of the Jewish Communist Federation in October, 1919. Also a member of the IWW’s Textile Workers’ Industrial Union. Arrested during second Palmer Raids, January 1920. Deported November 23, 1920.
INS file 54810/67; FBI file OG 380782
Vasily Mitin Konyakin (Василий Митин Конякин, Vasil Koniakin; Vasil Mitin)
Born 1873, Saratov, Russia. Rubber worker. Migrated to US 1912. Joined Union of Russian Workers in 1917; became an officer in its Akron branch. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/227
Feodor Korini (Frank; Korano; Karoni; aka Brutski; Brutzki; Rutzky)
Born Chiernihiv, Russia (present-day Ukraine), c. 1888. Migrated to US 1913. Laborer. Financial secretary of Russian Branch No. 2 of the Communist Party in Philadelphia under the pseudonym of Butzki. Arrested January 1920; denied being “Butzki,” but multiple witnesses identified him as such. According to the immigration inspector, “The testimony of the alien is shifting, evasive, and evidently untruthful in material particulars.” Deported to Russia, February 26, 1921.
INS file 54809/873
Zys Korostyshevsky (Зыс Коростышевский; Zusil; aka Joe Kraus)
Born 1897, Radomyshl, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Jewish. Garment worker. Migrated to US 1913. Became a Tolstoyan (i.e. pacifist and agrarian) anarchist. Arrested June, 1917 in Chicago, but deportation warrant canceled for lack of evidence. Arrested again January 1919. Deported March 12, 1921.
INS file 54235/35
