Anatoli Markowitsch Gurevich

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Anatoli Markowitsch Gurewitsch , with the code name Kent ( Russian Анатолий Маркович Гуревич ; * November 7, 1913 in Charkow ; † January 2, 2009 in St. Petersburg ) was an officer of the Soviet military intelligence service GRU and as a petit chef one of the "legendary" personalities of the Red Orchestra designated resistance movements .

Life

Gurevich came from a Jewish family and grew up in Leningrad . From 1936 he attended the Institute for Tourism there, where he trained as an interpreter. In 1938 he took part in the Spanish Civil War as a volunteer and was recruited by the GRU like other former Spanish fighters . He was commissioned to support and monitor the grand chef Leopold Trepper in setting up an information network.

At the direction of the GRU headquarters, he also contacted Sándor Radó in Geneva in 1940 and, in early November 1941, with Harro Schulze-Boysen in Berlin.

Since Trepper did not have sufficient radio equipment in 1941, Gurewitsch's group in Belgium, under the guise of a South American building materials company cooperating with the Nazis, also took over a large part of the information transmission for them. After stays in Stockholm and, above all, in Brussels , Gurevich was arrested in Marseille in 1942 and included in the radio game begun by the Gestapo Red Orchestra .

After his return to the Soviet Union in 1945, he was accused of treason . After a long stay in the Lubyanka , he was deported to a labor camp. He was not fully rehabilitated until 1991, but received such a low pension that he had to rely on donations to buy urgently needed medicines.

Only after his rehabilitation did he find out that his son Michel was alive and living in Spain; Previously he had only been told about him that he had died after he was born.

Fonts

  • Anatoli Gourevitch: Un certain monsieur Kent. Le dernier témoin de l'Orchestre rouge. Grasset: Paris 1995; ISBN 978-2-246-46331-3

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. Kreisinfo Oberhavel ( Memento from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.2 MB) Die Linke