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About Idel Jakobson
- Idel Jakobson (12 August 1904 in Jekabpils, Latvia – 12 September 1997 in Tallinn, Estonia) was a Jewish NKVD Officer.
- According to the materials of Kaitsepolitsei, Jakobson took part in sentencing around 1,200 people to death and persecuting and torturing at least 1,800 people.Jakobson was at first a citizen of Latvia, but moved to Estonia in 1930s.
- He participated in the activities of the Jewish cultural society Licht.
- In 1931 he was arrested in Tallinn, being accused of subversive activities directed against the Republic of Estonia.
- In 1938, together with a number of other communists, he was granted amnesty and deported to Latvia.
- He returned to Estonia after the June 1940 communist coup and became an investigator of the NKVD, since September 1940 leading the investigations' department of the NKVD of the Estonian SSR.
- Idel Jakobson was notorious for his sadistic methods (beatings, other methods of torture) during interrogations.Jakobson fled Estonia in July, 1941, and worked as a chief investigator in Russia and Ukraine.
- His 'investigations' were carried out in the framework of the so-called 'Vyshinsky doctrine', in effect presumption of guilt: without a trial, he arranged a death sentence to 621 people.
- Most of his victims were ethnic Estonians, including well-known politicians like Ado Birk and Jaan Hünerson.
- He returned to Estonia in 1944, working as the head of investigation department until 1950.
- He was expelled from CPSU in 1953 for having visited a private Jewish canteen and concealing that fact. In 1990s, an investigation on I.
- Jakobson's activities during his NKVD 'career' was launched, but the case never reached the court, as Jakobson died.
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