YANKEL, Yanish

(revolutionary pseudonyms: “Yanni,” “Yanki”)

Jewish. Son of a worker. Lived in Odessa. Anarchist. Probably a member of the Odessa Anarchist Federation “Nabat” in 1920. 

In mid-1921, he lived in Odessa (Malorossiyskaya Street, Building 16). Local Chekists described him as an “active anarchist.”

Later in 1921 he lived in Odessa (Bazarnaya Street, Building 26, where he shared accommodation with “Yefim”), and worked in the land and housing department. A member of the Odessa anarchist group “Nabat,” according to intelligence reports, he belonged to the group’s “active intellectual core.” He participated in meetings of the pro-Bolshevik Union of Anarchist Positivists, including the meeting on August 28, 1921, which decided to create the Odessa Section of Universalist Anarchists. He was suspected of involvement in an underground printing press, and on September 6, 1921, the Political Department of the Secret Operations Directorate of the All-Ukrainian Cheka ordered that Yanish Yankel be placed under “close surveillance.”

Sisters (?) – Friedman D. Kh., Yankel F.

Archives: GDA SBU [State Archives Department of the Security Service of Ukraine], f. 13, Ref. 415, v. 1, arch. 1000, 1002, 1004, 1025, 1027, 1029, 1031, 1041.

Translated by: Malcolm Archibald.