Nadiye Seydamet: “When I wanted to drink water, they pointed a machine gun at me”.
Nadia Seydamet was born in the village of Ozenbash, Bakhchysarai region. She was fated ...
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Sofia Yalpachik: “It was very scary”.
Sofia Yalpachik, born in 1937, is a Karaite from Bakhchysarai. She remembers the deportation ...
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Ayshe Bekirova: “I was born when trees were blooming”.
The caves of her native village Biryuk Sayuren, Bakhchisaray region, where they hid from ...
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Aider Alimov: “Uzbeks were told that we have horns”.
That day – May 18, 1944 – Aidar Alimov remembered well. At five in ...
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Tair Usta: “I swore to return to Crimea”.
When Soviet soldiers knocked on the door of the Usta family home, Tair Bey ...
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Shikurie Ablaeva: “I still don’t understand how we survived».
Shikurie Ablaeva managed to finish 4 classes before the war took away her brother. ...
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Murvet Ganieva: “A policeman lives in our house”
The house where Murvet Ganieva was born is still in Yalta. She even managed ...
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Nadyr Aziyev: ‘We treated soldiers who later evicted us’
Nadyr Aziyev was born in 1935 in the village of Saraymen near Edy Kuyu ...
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Shevkiye Azizova: ‘We were told to marry soldiers so that we would not be evicted’
Shevkiye Azizova from the village of Arbat tells about the terrifying days of the ...
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Lenure Belialova: ‘We were helped by an Uzbek who was one of the soldiers who deported us’.
Lenure Belialova’s father was the head of the collective farm in his village. When ...
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