Waclaw Bogucki

Communist International who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia

Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia. In 1921 - after the Soviet government had recognised Lithuania's independence - he was appointed a secretary of the Belorussian CP. In 1924, he was Belorussian People's Commissar for the Interior,^[1] but later that year. was transferred to the Polish section of Comintern, and appointed a candidate member of Comintern's Praesidium, and represented Comintern at congresses of the Polish CP in the late 1920s.^[2] He was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party from 1925 to 1930. In 1930-37, he worked in the office the Chief Prosecutor of the USSR. He was arrested in September 1937, during the Polish operation of the NKVD

Old Bolshevik, born in 1896, who worked in the TASS news agency, and as a librarian at the Lenin Institute. She was arrested soon after her husband, and spent eight years in labour camps. Their 13-year-old son, Vladimir, was sent to an orphanage. When she was released, she searched for her son, but could not find him, because he had been caught stealing a watermelon and a cantaloupe when he was hungry, and had been sentenced to ten years in a labour camp. She died in a retirement home "lonely and sick".^[3]