Crime through stories of witnesses The idea of the project belongs to Zeynep Tasheva, an activist, volunteer from the public organization KrymSOS. In 2015, she and her team decided to collect eyewitness accounts of the events [...]

Server Amzaev

As a child, Server Amzaev's only dream was that the war would end. But one tragedy was replaced by another. On May 18, 1944 the Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea. 18 days of difficult journey into exile, and then sever [...]

Khayrie Ablaeva

The village of Stilya, where Khayrie Ablaeva was born, it was burned by the Germans. When the Soviet armies liberated Crimea, only ashes remained from Khayrie's native village. On the day of deportation, 18 May 1944, she had [...]

Vait Mukhtarov

The story of Vait Mukhtarov is a story of deprivation and grief. When he was 12 years old, he lost his mother and four little brothers and sisters. As child, he dug graves for them, and then he saw jackals ripping up their bo [...]

Zulfiye Yakubova

Zulfiya Yakubova was one of the youngest of seven children her family. The oldest Zakir was only 13 on the day of deportation. Having survived all the hardships of life in exile, losing loved ones, she returned to Crimea only [...]