Biography Alexander Rembel

Photo: From the family archive of A. Rembel, the police and the prosecutor's office doubt that during the war the Russian German was exiled to the labor colony for political reasons. Petersburger Alexander Rembel seeks the rehabilitation of his great -grandfather Isaac, an ethnic German. Historians call it repression, and modern prosecutors and employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs do not see “political motives” point blank.

When the past of the family became a taboo of Rembeli, as Alexander found out, they arrived in Russia under Catherine II, when she invited the Germans-Mennonites to the empire, freed them from taxes and made it possible to engage in agriculture. Five children were born in the family, one died in infancy, four grew up. Isaac Petrovich Rembel was born on December 26. His great -grandson found the corresponding entry in a copy of the family book.

Isaac studied in Pavlodar, taught at a school in the village of Lyubino Omsk Region - he taught children chemistry, German, and also played the button accordion. Photo: From the family archive of A. Remepel, the birth certificate of Isaac Remepel - I contacted this school, it turned out that there is still a portrait of great -grandfather as the best teacher, found two of his former students who sent me photos of great -grandfather with the class - there were no these photos in our family, ”says Alexander.

Rembuel Alexander Rembel of the second on the left in the middle row with the class in which he taught in the year. The third left in the lower row is his daughter Lyudmila. The Isaac Rembel was mobilized in the labor of February 26 - in the theological of the Sverdlovsk region at the aluminum factory, and the family, which remained in the village of Lyubino, selected all the property, including the horse.

To survive, the children went to the forest, collected firewood to drown the house. Isaac returned to the family on May 20. He began to teach at school again, but now he was supposed to be celebrated in the military enlistment office as a settler. Since then, the family has not said anything about the past. Rembel's certificate by decree of the USSR Government in September - October of the year in the country more than thousands of Germans were deported.

They were forcibly taken deep into the country, to camps, colony, fearing that they could cooperate with Germany. In total, during the war, to thousands of Germans were moved. Evgeny - the son of Isaac and the future grandfather of Alexander - after school entered the Omsk State Polytechnic University, after graduation he left for distribution to Norilsk. The family moved to St.

Petersburg in m. Until 22 years, Alexander did not know the story of his family. After the death of grandmother, relatives found pre -war birth certificates of Isaac's children. Evgeny’s certificate indicated nationality - German, in the post -war duplicate - Russian. Alexander Rembel said that Elena, his mother, did not know that their name is German, and Larisa, her mother’s sister, when she studied at school, her parents forbade the German language.

She moved to Brazil, became Louise. She tried to correspond with Isaac in German, but he, apparently, cut off the correspondence before the war. In Brazil, Rimpel is now about 50 relatives. Photo: Alexander Rembel to unravel the tangle of family history and achieve justice Alexander began to unravel the tangle of family history, was able to draw a genealogical tree. He began to look for details about the special settler Isaac Rembel, wrote to the archives.

I received a copy of the accounting card for Rembel Isaac Petrovich G. And the response of the Ministry of Internal Affairs says: “Information that political repression was applied to Rembel, we have no stay [for political reasons].” But no, they refused me again - “we do not have information about the applied repressions,” says Alexander. Alexander, in attempts to rehabilitate the great -grandfather, reached the deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Prosecutor's Office, but everywhere refusals - the fact of repression there cannot be stubbornly confirmed.

But evidence of the opposite-for example, the fact that Isaac was sent to special settlement due to the crime committed by him-the departments do not. Alexander Rembel appealed to the St. Petersburg human rights organization “Civil Control” was recognized as the Ministry of Justice of the NKO-investment and continues to achieve the rehabilitation of his great-grandfather Isaac Petrovich Rembel through the court.

Rimpel General photo of the family of Rimpel in the year. On the left in the lower row is Isaac Rembel, near his children and grandchildren. In the claims, Alexander and his representatives ask the court to recognize the decision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the refusal to issue a certificate of rehabilitation illegal and conduct a second check.

Many of the Germans did not have suitable preparations for work at heavy construction sites in harsh climatic conditions, and after the end of the war were not completely released from the camps, but were sent for special settlement and remained amazed in a number of rights. In the opinion of “civil control”, these actions of the state regarding an entire people are repressions.

Now the claim is considered in the Central District Court of Omsk. And if it is not satisfied, human rights activists are ready to reach the Supreme Court of Russia, and if Russian courts do not find grounds for rehabilitation of Isaac Petrovich, then contact international instances.Commentary lawyer “Civil Control” Olga Startseva: - The actual conclusion in the camp - Trudarmy - did not end for Isaac Petrovich in the year.

Like thousands of Russian Germans, mobilized during the war and in the camps, he was transferred to eternal special settlement. Despite the preserved accounting card of the mobilized, the Ministry of Internal Affairs refuses his children and grandchildren to recognize Isaac Petrovich repressed for political motives. A formal refusal on similar grounds recognized the Supreme Court illegal in the year in relation to the rehabilitation of members of the tsarist family.

Then the Decree of the Presidium of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation established that the refusal to rehabilitation is illegal if the fact of the application of political repression is reliably established. We consider this fact established, since there is an archive document confirming that Isaac Rembel was in the working columns of the NKVD. But this fact is not enough for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they are confused by the lack of a record of the cause of labor mobilization - the nationality of Isaac Rembel.

The certificate of human rights organization “Civil Control” was created in a year by a group of human rights activists and lawyers who have been fought for observing human rights since Soviet times. In the year, members of the organization decided that they would concentrate their work on one very important, fundamental right - the right to fair trial.