Sofia Malylju
Born in 1926 in Czechoslovakia. Studied in Prague. Arrested in Lvov in 1948. Passed through the Gulag at Kolyma and Tayshet. Released in 1956.
Jaroslav Martínek
Born in 1900 in Bohemia. Moved to the USSR in 1923 as a teacher to the Czech minority. Arrested in 1927 and imprisoned on the Solovetsky Islands an...
Dzidra Meldere
Born in 1928 in Latvia, after 1945 in partisan movement, 1949-1956 imprisoned in Gulags in Kazakhstan, return back to Latvia in 1968.
Henryka Milewska (Drobik)
Born in 1925 in Stanisławów (todany Ivano-Frankivsk). Deported with mother to Kazakchstan in 1940. Worked in sowchoz as a tractor driver. Released...
Egon Morgenstern
Erika Palmipuu
Born in 1934 in Estonia. In 1941 deported to Kirovsk region in USSR. After 5 years she escaped, but in 1950 was sent back. She came back to Estonia...
Lucjan Pietruszko „Sałatek”
Born in Poland in 1926. Soldier of the Home Army. Interned in July 1944 and drafted into a penal batalion. Released in January 1945. Several weeks ...
Gertrud Platais - German in female camp
In 1932, she left for the Soviet Union in the hope of a better life. In 1938 she was arrested and sent to the Alzhir women's camp in Kazakhstan. Sh...
Jan Plovajko
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1922. Arrested entering the USSR in October 1940. Sentenced to three years in the Gulag in Norilsk. In 1943 released into...
Yelena Posnik
Born in Russia in 1924, she was sentenced to 10 years in the Gulag in 1945 as a twenty-one year old for speaking to German soldiers as a German tea...
Roberts Pūriņš
Born in 1920 in Latvia, after Soviet occupation 1940 in resistance movement, sent to Gulag for 3 years. Returned home and arrested again in 1951, d...
Vello Raie
Born on 1 March 1923 in Tallinn, Estonia, arrested in 1945, spent 9 years in Gulag camps in Arkhangelsk oblast and Karaganda.
Irena Saulutė Valaitytė-Špakauskienė
1928 born in Kaunas, Lithuania. 1941 deported to Siberia, she spent 1 year in Altai region, 5 years on islands in northern Yakutia. In 1958 she cam...
Anton a Karel Šilhaví
Anton Šilhavý pomáhal elektrifikovat SSSR, zatčen v roce 1936, poslán na Kolymu a popraven. Karel Šilhavý pracoval v SSSR jako inženýr, zatčen 1938...
Alexander Snovsky - Dead Track Prisoner
He never forgot and did everything he could to make sure it would not be forgotten. Arrested 1949 in Leningrad, sent to build a railway in northern...
Yevgenia Varasova
Dvacátá léta dvacátého století, Praha. Černobílá fotografie: uprostřed Jaroslav Heyrovský, vynálezce polarografie. Muž, který se o tři dekády pozdě...
Mikuláš Végh
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1920. In 1939 decided to escape to the USSR. Sentenced to five years at a correctional labour camp for crossing the borde...
Evženie Věsniková-Němečková - Family in the grip of the Gulag and the Gestapo
She received a medal from Stalin, then her husband was executed, her son (who later became the Soviet national artist) was taken away from her, and...
Antonín Vodseďálek
Irena Wołoszczuk (Kropka)
Born in 1933 in Antoniny in pre-war Poland (today Ukaraine). Deported to Vitjunino in 1940. Forced to work at wood cutting. After the Sikorski-Majs...
Pavel Zoc
Born in Ukraine in 1900. Emigrated to Czechoslovakia in 1919. Arrested by the NKVD in May 1945. Sentenced to 10 years in Pechorlag. Returned to Pra...