James Vital TORDION

  General Notes:

According to the family information, Vital Tordion, who was Swiss, was shot in Odessa in 1920, accused of being a spy. He was apparently trying to get back to Chisinau where his wife and young son where stranded. His widow and son managed to escape to Switzerland, from where they emigrated to Canada.

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http://ancestorsfromrussia.com/odessa/1920-1922-execution-lists-of-odessa/:

1920 \endash 1922 Execution Lists of Odessa.
The Odessa state management of militia and criminal investigation department.
The list executed by the Odessa provincial extreme commission for 1920.
Lists executed for gangsterism*
[*armed resistance of the Soviet authority, participation in armed revolts against bolsheviks]
Begins: 1920.
End: September 28, 1922.
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1377. Dionis Tordion, son of Leon
Source: Odessa Regional State Archive, Odessa, Ukraine.
File R107-1-62. Language: Russian.
Found by Valery Mock \endash 2004. Translated by Valery Mock \endash 2005.
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. Death. Executed by the TCHEKA

James married ? MAIDAN. (? MAIDAN died before 1919.)

James next married Elisaveta (Lisa) OHANOV, daughter of Isai Avedis OHANOV and Valeria VON PRUNKUL, on 26 Aug 1919. (Elisaveta (Lisa) OHANOV was born on 30 Jan 1890 in Bessarabia, Moldova and died on 7 Dec 1972 in Québec, Québec, Canada.)