Our Family in Bogoslovlaga Labour Camp

This Labour Camp had over twenty-thousand Volga German inmates, all performing slave labour for the government of the USSR.

This one camp saw over 18 male members of the Gerk family live and work there.  They included:

Gerk, August Ivanovich born 1923 Kamenskii

Gerk, Adam Johannevich, born 1913 Iosefstal

Gerk, Georg Mateasovich, born 1912 Iosefstal

Gerk, Johannes Georgovich, born 1911 Iosefstal

Gerk, Johannes Jakoblevich, born 1911 Marienfeld

Gerk, Johannes Johannesovich, born 1903 Keller

Gerk, Johannes Mateasovich, born 1900 Iosefstal

Gerk, Johannes Iosefovich, born 1908 Marienfeld

Gerk, Iosef Mateasovich, born 1910 Iosefstal

Gerk, Iosef Robertovich, born 1923 Iosefstal

Gerk, Iosef Jakobevich, born 1909 Marienfeld

Gerk, Iosef Iosefovich, born 1921 Kamenskii

Gerk, Klementii Iosefovich, born 1908 Pfeifer

Gerk, Kospar Michaelovich, born 1904 Marienfeld

Gerk, Nikodemus Petrovich, born 1913 Iosefstal

Gerk, Robert Davidovich, born 1909 Iosefstal

Gerk, Franz Ivanovich, born 1912 Pfeifer

Gerk, Emanuel Iosipovich, born 1923 Pfeifer

The camp was located near the Russian town of Krasnoturinsk, in the Sverdlovsk Oblast. 

Source: Kirillov V.M. , Kuz'mina P.M. (ed.)
GEDENKBUCH: «Kniga pamiati nemtsev-trudarmeitsev Bogoslovlaga. 1941-1946»