Burt Moses Elevich

Genus. in 1902 in a Jewish family in the Polish town of Pinchov. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Lodz. In 1915 he worked on a cart transport, then as an apprentice in a shoe shop. In 1920 he joined the Komsomol, and in 1921 - the party. In 1923, he illegally crossed the Soviet-Polish border and settled in Vitebsk, where he got a job at a shoe factory. As a conscious communist, he was sent to study at the Soviet Party School, where he conducted propaganda work at enterprises. Then he was sent to graduate school at the Leningrad Institute of History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In Leningrad, he met Nikolaev and Katsnelson, who were later accused of murdering S.M. Kirov. On the night of February 28, 1938 he was arrested. The same year he died in prison as a result of a long hunger strike. In 1940, his case was closed “for lack of evidence of a crime.”