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Nuri Asanov

Nuri Asanov 86 years old He was born in the village of Buyuk Ozenbash, Bakhchysaray district. In this village, the population had actively helped the anti-Nazi partisans. Therefore, during the deportation, people for a long t [...]

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Dilyaver Muhterem

Dilyaver Muhterem 82 years old He was born in the village of Ayvasil, Yalta district. “On May 18 we were awakened from sleep by loud knocking on the door. At the door stood an officer and two soldiers with machine guns. They [...]

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Leniye Minabilova

Leniye Minabilova 84 years old She was born in the village of Salgir Kyat, Krasnohvardiysk district. In early 1944, the family lived in anticipation of the return of her father from the front. Crimea at that time was already [...]

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Leylya Apti

Leylya Apti 90 years old She was born in the village of Ayvasil, Yalta district. At 4 AM on May 18, 1944, soldiers came and told us to rapidly collect our things because we were being deported. After all the Crimean Tatars fr [...]

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Zevide Ismailova

Zevide Ismailova 84 years old She was born in the village of Kurtluk, Karasubazar district. The family was deported to the Uzbek city of Namangan. Over the course of the next three months, two children and the father died, wh [...]

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Izzet Izzetdinov

Izzet Izzetdinov 81 years old He was born in the village of Chamly Ozenbash, not far from Sevastopol. On May 18, 1944, Soviet soldiers burst into his home and ordered everyone to leave immediately and go out into the street. [...]

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Vasfie Khairova

Vasfie Khairova 80 years old She is the older sister of the leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Dzhemileva, born in the village of Boz, Dzhurchi district. In the evening of May 17, 1944, trucks began to assemble in the vill [...]

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Adile Ametova

Adile Ametova 84 years old She was born in the village of Dermenkoy, Yalta district. Our family was deported to the Urals. I remember that on the way many people died. At the final destination an ambulance was waiting. They a [...]

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Ayshe Gaziyeva

Ayshe Gaziyeva 87 years old She was born in Sudak. A few years later the family moved to Alushta. During the war, her father died from illness. On the way to exile she fell ill with typhus. Only when they were already in Asia [...]

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Nariman Abdurakhmanov

Nariman Abdurakhmanov 75 years old Before deportation his family lived in the village of Kadikoy, Balaklava district. On May 18, 1944, Nariman's mother, in the last stages of pregnancy, was awakened at 4 a.m by NKVD troops. W [...]

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