Shpigel Rudolf Andreevich
A resident of the Kyiv region, a digger. Arrested in July 1941, died in the Tomsk prison hospital (1942)
Rudolf Andreevich SPIEGEL was born in 1903 in Krasnoarmeysk (presumably the Grishino station on the Yekaterininskaya Railway, Bakhmut district. – E.B.). He was German by nationality, had a basic education, was non-partisan, and unmarried. In 1941, he worked as a grabber at the Vilcha railway station in the Kaganovich district of the Kyiv region.
On June 26, 1941, the head of the 1st Department of the KRO NKGB Directorate for the Kyiv Region, Junior Lieutenant of State Security, M.S. Gorokhovsky, signed a decree selecting a preventive measure for R.A. Shpigel, suspected of crimes under Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR (counterrevolutionary agitation). On June 30, 1941, at 2:00 a.m., he was detained; during the arrest, his wallet and 510 rubles in old money were found. On July 1, he was placed in the UGB prison of the NKVD Directorate for the Kyiv Region. Later, along with other prisoners, he was transferred to the east, and on August 15, 1941, he ended up in Tomsk Prison No. 3 of the NKVD Directorate of the Novosibirsk Region.
On January 9, 1942, prisoner Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, under investigation, died in the Tomsk prison hospital. The cause of death was listed as "diarrhea and exhaustion." The medical examination report was signed that same day by prison doctor Pechenkina and prison DPN Grebnev. A death notice was sent to the Novosibirsk OAGS on May 18, 1942.
Source: Archival file of prisoner R.A. Shpigel // Archive of the Memorial Museum "NKVD Investigative Prison"
Cases (1)
Documents (9)
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001. Cover of the prisoner's personal file (Spiegel R.A.). Started on August 15, 1941, Completed on January 9, 1942.
A printed cover of a personal file, partially filled with personal information about prisoner Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel. Contains the start and end dates of the file.
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SECRET
Appendix No. 1 to the instructions
Prisoner's personal file
Secret
Prisoner's personal file
Shpigel Rudolf Andreevich
Started on August 15, 1941
Completed January 9, 1942
Arch. No. ___
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
Source Information
Source format: Printed form (Personal file cover), completed by hand.
No signatures.
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002. Prison photograph of a prisoner. Kyiv, 1941.
Two prison photographs of a prisoner, pasted onto a page of a printed case form. Judging by the Ukrainian language on the form, the photo was taken in a Kyiv prison in 1941; the exact date is not indicated.
Source information: photographs. Each photograph is labeled with the year of birth: " 1903 " and the full name: " SPIEGEL RUDOLF ANDREEVICH "
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
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003. Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure. Kyiv, June 26, 1941.
Resolution of the Head of the 1st Department of the Department of the Specialized Anti-Terrorist Forces, Junior Lieutenant of State Security GOROKHOVSKY, on the selection of a preventive measure - detention - in relation to SPIEGEL Rudolf Andreevich, born in 1903, a robber at the Vilcha station, suspected under Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR.
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Form No. 2
I APPROVE
People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
Head of the National Security Directorate for Kyiv Oblast
CAPTAIN OF STATE SECURITY - BLACK
26 VI 1941 signature
I authorize the arrest.
Signature
June 26, 1941
Stamp: RE-REGISTERED IN 1941
RESOLUTION
(on the selection of a preventive measure)
City of Kyiv, June __, 1941. I, Chief of the 1st Department of the KRO NKGB for the Kyiv Region, Junior Lieutenant of State Security - GOROKHOVSKY, having reviewed the materials received by the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR on criminal activity:
Last name: SPIEGEL Rudolf Andreevich.
Year of birth: 1903, place of birth: Krasnoarmeysk
Profession and specialty: Grabar
Place of work and position: works as a grabber at Vilcha station
party non-party
Lower education, nationality German, USSR citizenship
Marital status: SINGLE
Address St. Vilcha Kaganovichsky district
FOUND: that SPIEGEL Rudolf Andreevich is suspected of crimes under Article 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR and taking into account that SPIEGEL R.A.: while at liberty, may EVADE trial and investigation
guided by Articles 143, 145 and 156 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Ukrainian SSR.
RESOLVED:
The measure to prevent Rudolf Andreevich SPIEGEL from evading investigation and trial is to be detention, which is to be announced to the arrested person by signature in this resolution.
In accordance with Article 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Ukrainian SSR, a copy of the order shall be sent to the Prosecutor and transferred to the prison director for inclusion in the prison personnel file.
CHIEF OF THE 1ST DEPARTMENT OF THE KRO UNKGB
JUNIOR LIEUTENANT OF STATE SECURITY signature - GOROKHOVSKY
"I agree," Deputy Head of the KRO UNKGB
STATE SECURITY LIEUTENANT signature - KLEIMAN
This resolution was announced to me on “___” ___________ 194_.
List of persons in a document
- SPIEGEL Rudolf Andreevich - Suspect (person involved in the case).
- GOROKHOVSKY - Head of the 1st Department of the KRO NKGB for the Kyiv region, junior lieutenant of the State Security - signed the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure;
- KLEIMAN - Deputy Head of the KRO NKGB, State Security Lieutenant - approved the Resolution on the selection of a preventive measure;
- CHERNYKH - Head of the NKGB Directorate for the Kyiv Region, Captain of the State Security Service - approved the Resolution.
Source information:
Typographic form (Form No. 2), completed by hand; document is in good condition; signatures are autographs.
The official seal (standing on the prosecutor's sanction), the text is only partially legible: "Prosecutor of the Kyiv region..."
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004. Detention protocol. NKVD Department of the Kaganovichi District, June 30, 1941.
Handwritten protocol of the detention of Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, born in 1903, on June 30, 1941, with a note about a personal search and the confiscation of 510 rubles.
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Detention protocol
June 30, 1941. I, the guard (duty officer?) of the ROM NKVD Kaganovichi District, Comrade Voznuk, took into custody at 2 a.m. on this day, by order of the [illegible] KGB, citizen of the village of Vilcha, Kaganovichi District, Shpigel Rudolf Andreevich, born in 1903. Upon arrest, a personal search was conducted. During the search, a wallet [illegible] of old money was found in the amount of 510 rubles five hundred and ten rubles.
At the arrest, the following witnesses were present: Frank Adolph. K.
Signature of the detainee / Spiegel
Signature of the witness / Frank
Duty officer of the NKVD ROM, signature Voznuk
Approved by the Head of the Regional Directorate of Internal Affairs (RONKVD) signature
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel is a defendant in the case.
- Voznuk, the duty officer of the ROM NKVD of the Kaganovichi district, detained R.A. Shpigel;
- Frank Adolph K. - witness, was present at the arrest of Shpigel R. A.;
- [Last name not given] - Head of the Kaganovichi District NKVD - signed the detention protocol.
Source Information
Source format: Manuscript (Detention Protocol), in a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian; signatures are autographs; condition is average, the handwritten text is not always legible, there are many inaccuracies in the spelling of names; in the lower left corner is an embossed seal with text in Ukrainian and Russian: "People's Commissariat. Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR / District Department named after L. M. Kaganovich."
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005. Memorandum on transfer to the Investigative Unit of the Regional Directorate of the NKGB. Kyiv, [Date not specified]
Memorandum on the referral of Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel to the investigative department of the regional NKGB department in Kyiv.
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REFERENCE
1. Surname Spiegel
The name is Rudolph
Patronymic Andreevich
Year of birth: 1903
Specialty [empty]
2. Destination : Investigative Department of the Regional Directorate of the NKGB, Kyiv
3. When and by whom was the Investigator for Kaganovich's MRO NKGB convicted?
4. Doctor's notes on health status [empty]
5. Distinguishing features: Dactylo was not registered with the Kaganovich RO NKVD.
Chief of the Kaganovich RO NKVD
Junior lieutenant of police signature / Tone [illegible] /
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
- Ton[inaudible] - Chief of the Kaganovich RO NKVD, junior lieutenant of police - signed the document.
Source Information
Source format: Typewritten form, completed by hand. Document condition and legibility: average. Signature – autograph.
At the bottom of the document is the official seal, the text on the seal is in Ukrainian and Russian, and is difficult to read: “People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR / District Department named after L. M. Kaganovich.”
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006. An offender's registration file opened at the Prison of the UDB at the NKVS Directorate for the Kyiv Region. Kyiv (?), July 1, 1941
The title page of the registration file for Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, an undertrial investigation. It contains the date of his admission to the prison of the Kyiv Oblast Department of the People's Commissariat of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the date of his arrival at Tomsk Prison No. 3. The printed form is in Ukrainian, the handwritten text is in Russian.
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Behind the Primal Magazine No. 361
ON THE RIGHT
UDB prison at UNKVS No. 12249 in Kiev. region.
For the under-trial offender , Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel
When arriving at the UDB 1/VII-41 prisons.
Prison No. 3 15/VIII-41
[the bottom of the form is not filled in]
Full transcript (Russian language):
According to reception log No. 361
CASE
Prison of the State Security Directorate of the NKVD No. 12249 in the Kyiv region
On the accused offender Shpigel Rudolf Andreevich
When arrived at the UGB prison: 1/VII-41
Prison No. 3 15/VIII-41
[the bottom of the form is not filled in]
When arrested [empty]
When convicted [empty]
Started [empty]
Finished [empty]
On ___ pages [empty]
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
Source Information
Typographic form (in Ukrainian), filled out by hand.
Good condition, some dates are missing.
Presence of litter:
upper left corner: " 3 ";
upper right corner: “1-42” (apparently, the date of writing off the case. - E.B. );
at the bottom of the document there is a note in green ink: “ Written off / 9/I-42 ” and an illegible signature;
at the bottom of the document, on the left, diagonally, in green ink: “Notification sent to the OAGS of Novosibirsk on 18(?)/V-42.”
Stamp: "RE-REGISTERED in 1941" at the top of the document.
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007. Personal search protocol (Form No. 2), Commandant's Office of the NKVD Directorate for Kiev Oblast, July 1, 1941.
Protocol on the conduct of a personal search of the detained citizen Shpigel R.A., which was carried out by Kisel and as a result of which 521 rubles 13 kopecks were discovered.
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Form No. 2
Personal search report
... Kiev July 1, 1941. I [inaudible] Commandant's Office of the NKVD for Kiev. Region on this date, on the basis of [inaudible] a personal search of the detained citizen Shpigel R.A., [inaudible] found the following: money 521 rubles 13 kopecks.
/five hundred twenty-one rubles 13 kopecks.
[inaudible] strap.
[dash]
The search was conducted by: Kisel
Present at the search: signature
I confirm the accuracy of what is recorded in this protocol, I have received a copy:
Signature of the detainee Spiegel
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
- Kisel - Official (conducted the search).
Source Information
Source format: Printed form (Form No. 2), completed by hand (copy). Signatures are autographs. Document condition: average.
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008. Fingerprint card (Form No. 2). Kiev region, July 3, 1941
Fingerprint card of Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, born in 1903, with fingerprints and fingerprint formula.
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Form No. 2.
Paul M
Shpigel Rudolf Andreevich
Year of birth: 1903
[Images of fingerprints]
[Signature for] registered Spiegel
...day July 3, 1941
[inaudible] prison of the NKGB Directorate for Kiev Oblast.
... f-dactoloscope signature
... Head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the NKGB prison signature
List of persons in a document
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
Source Information
Source format: Printed form (Form No. 2), completed by hand (including fingerprints). Signatures are autographs; signature transcripts are missing. The document is in average condition and readability; not all text is legible.
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009. Medical examination report of a corpse. Tomsk, January 9, 1942
Report of the external medical examination of the body of prisoner Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, born in 1903, who died in the prison hospital. The cause of death was diarrhea and exhaustion. The examination was performed by prison physician Pechenkina in the presence of prison DPN Grebnev.
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"I approve"
Head of Prison No. 3 of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD
State Security Lieutenant
/God/ signature
ACT
medical examination of the corpse
January 9, 1942.
Based on Order No. 0157 and the order of the Chief of Prison No. 3 of the Novosibirsk Regional Directorate of the NKVD, State Security Lieutenant BOZHOK, I, a doctor at the Pechenkina prison, in the presence of Comrade GREBNEV, the prison's DPN, conducted an external examination of the body of prisoner Rudolf Andreevich Shpigel, born in 1903, who died in the prison hospital.
The body is a male, of medium height, of regular build, with severe emaciation. Rigor mortis has set in. The scalp is markedly pale, as is the facial skin. The mucous membranes of the lips are pale. The mouth is closed, the tongue is behind the teeth. The neck is long, the skin on it is pale, without damage. The ribcage is cylindrical, the ribs are sharply protruding. The abdomen is sunken, the skin on it is pale. The genitals are unremarkable. The nasal, ear, and anal openings are free of foreign objects. The skin of the upper and lower extremities is pale, without damage. The bones are without [illegible] damage.
No other changes were detected during the external examination of the body. Based on the above and case history No. 1578-60, prisoner Shpigel's death was natural and resulted from diarrhea and exhaustion.
Prison doctor - signature /Pechonkina/
DPN prison - signature /Grebnev/.—
List of persons in the document:
- Rudolf Andreevich Spiegel - Prisoner (involved in the case)
- Bozhok - Head of Prison No. 3 of the NKVD NSO, State Security Lieutenant - approved the Death Certificate;
- Pechenkina, a prison doctor and official, carried out the examination.
- Grebnev, the prison's DNP, was present during the examination and signed the document.
Source Information
Typescript. Signatures are autographs. The document is in average condition. In the upper left corner is the official seal of Prison No. 3; the text is difficult to read; at the top is a faint signature: "Spiegel, Rudolf Andreevich."
