Rukhiye Asanova was the youngest of four daughters. Her Father wasn't home on the day of the deportation. Later, he was looking for his family from train to train, from wagon to wagon. He managed to find them, and the whole f [...]
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Sadyk Alimov: "In the early years of exile the separator saved us" When Sadyk Alimov returned home, his village was no longer there. It had been destroyed and planted with corn and sunflowers. It was impossible to return home [...]
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Despite the hazy memories of the deportation, Fahri Karaev remembers well the difficult trials he faced in the early years of exile - he lost his family members, suffered from starvation, but he stayed true to his dream [...]
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Usnie Abduraimova with her mother and four sisters were evicted to the bare steppe. Her younger sister died after a long journey. All children had dysentery and malaria, but they survived to tell this terrible story 75 years [...]
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Her father and uncle were shot for helping guerrillas, and on May 18, 1944, her mother with five children were deported from Crimea for treason, which she did not commit. In the early years of exile, the whole family fed on t [...]
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