Museum exhibit /Mincing-machine belonging to a family of German special settlers.
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A mincing-machine that belonged to a family of German special settlers – the Weber-Schuler family, who were exiled to the Iurga Region in Kemerovo oblast’ by the Decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 28.08.1941 “On the Re-settlement of Germans living in the Volga Region”. The mincing-machine was kept in the family of I.A. Schuler and given to the Iurga Municipal Local History Museum in 2005 when the Museum prepared an exhibition called “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo goroda Iurgi ii sud’by spetspereselentsev” [“Germans in Siberia: the Construction of the Town of Iurga and the fate of the Special settlers”]. (Photo 04.07.2005) 
 
 
 
 
Date of acquisition2005
 
Types of exhibitsMuseum exhibits/Objects/
 
Thematic indexDeportation
 
Thematic indexInternal Exile and Special Settlements
 
Thematic indexLife in Captivity/
 
Thematic index"Peaceful Life"
 
Date and place of creationbefore 1941
 
Materials
 
Materials
 
Description of exhibitAn ordinary factory-made mincing machine. The body has a funnel-shaped opening for inserting the meat, and a device for attaching it to a table, the handle is missing. It is made from a dark grey metal. The attachment which can be screwed onto the main body and which fastens the grating to it is made from a light yellow metal.
 
State of preservationUndamaged. There are small rust-patches on the attachment-device.
 
Detailed annotationThe mincing-machine belonged to the family of Ira (sic in the documents!) Andreevna Schuler (nee Weber). The Weber and Schuler families were deported for special settlement to the Iurga Region of the Kemerovo oblast’ by a Decree of the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 28.08.1941 “On the Re-settlement of the Germans Living in the Volga Region”. The mincing-machine was brought with them amongst other personal effects. It is not known which family it belonged to (the Webers or the Schulers) in 1941. Ira Andreevna (born 1936) was a child when the family was deported, and the mincing-machine could have been given to her either by her mother – Elizaveta Mikhailovna - or by her husband’s family (her husband’s name is not known). It was kept in the I.A. Schuler family. It was given to the Museum in 2005 when the Museum prepared an exhibition called “Nemtsy v Sibiri: stroitel’stvo goroda Iurgi ii sud’by spetspereselentsev” [“Germans in Siberia: the Construction of the Town of Iurga and the fate of the Special settlers”].
 
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Museum exhibit /Mincing-machine belonging to a family of German special settlers.