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Rosenberg Max Solomonovich (1911)

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SurnameRosenberg
NameMax
PatronymSolomonovich
Birth year1911
Birth placeDvinsk
SexM

Rosenberg Max Solomonovich (1911, Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province – ?) – geologist, party worker.

In 1926, Max Rosenberg joined the Komsomol, worked as a steel fixer on construction sites and as a mechanic at a factory. From 1930, by decision of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, he was assigned to Komsomol work. He was secretary of the Komsomol committee at the Tormozny factory in Moscow, secretary of the Ural Regional Committee in Kazakhstan, and assistant head of the political department of the fishing industry in the Far East. In 1936, he joined the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (VKP(b)) and worked as head of the political department at the Tambov Civil Aviation School. In 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Lubyanka, then in Butyrka prison. In 1938, he was transferred to Tambov city prison. In 1940, the investigation was completed and he was sentenced to five years in a correctional labour camp. He was sent to Kolyma. His sentence was later extended by four years. In 1947, he was released and worked on geological expeditions in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1951, he was arrested again and sentenced to five years in a labour camp. In 1955, he was released and rehabilitated.

Works: Tambov Pages … To Have the Strength to Remember: Stories of Those Who Went Through the Hell of Repression (Тамбовские странички … Иметь силу помнить : Рассказы тех, кто прошел ад репрессий ) / comp. L.M. Gurvich. Moscow: Moskovsky Rabochy, 1991. pp. 244–262.