Shefika Demirdzhi

There's nothing in Shefika Demirdzhi's memory about the deportation, she was only two years old at the time. But the first years of exile destroyed all her dreams, poverty and illness of loved ones accompanied her all her lif [...]

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Edem Abduraimov

When the war broke out and Edem Abduraimov's native village was bombed by the Germans, they were hiding from the bombings in caves. The Russian soldiers who liberated Crimea told his father several times that the Crimean Tata [...]

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Inaet Ablyatifova

From the moment the soldiers knocked on seven-year-old Inaet Ablyatifova's house and until they were loaded into the wagons, more than a day passed. They waited all day in the steppe for their fate, not knowing what awaited t [...]

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