Zera Magometova

When the Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea, Zera Magometova was 11. Her mother died before the deportation, and her father was in the labor army. There were just two of them, Zera and her brother. The train in which th [...]

Meryem Mambetova

Meryem Mambetova's life was so complicated that even as a child she did not allow herself to dream. All she was used to was exhausting work. First in Crimea before deportation, and then in exile. She survived the death of her [...]

From yesterday to today is 75 years The central office of the Crimean Turk Culture and Mutual Assistance Association (KTKYD) organized a competition of paintings dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Crimean [...]

Rustem Eminov "...I wander through the black silence... Few in it who are alive, more and more are dead, but their stories live in me, inside: Eighteenth of May. 1944... What am I looking for in this silence... That hear [...]

Faces of Deportation Zarema Yaliboylu was born into a family of Crimean Tatar exiles the city of Gelendzhik (Russia) in 1986. When she was five years old, the family moved to Simferopol. By that time, the Crimean Tatars were [...]

Feature film “87 Children” (2017)

Feature film "87 Children" (2017) Another story from director Akhtem Seitablayev, based on real events, tells the story of a real historical character - kindergarten teacher Saide Arifova. During the German occupation of Crim [...]

Feature film “Haytarma” (2013)

Feature film "Haytarma" (2013) "Haytarma" is the first Crimean Tatar feature film and the first feature film about deportation. It is about the tragic page in the history of the Crimean Tatar people - the criminal deportation [...]

The documentary “1944” (2019)

The documentary "1944" (2019) On may 18, 1944, at about 5 am, there was a knock on the door of every Crimean Tatar house. Men had gone to the front at that time, there were women, old men and children in Crimea. They were tak [...]