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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...

Jurgis Dirvonskis

Born 1926 in Lithuania, 1946 deported to Russia, spent many years in camps in Mordovia and Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Came back to Lithuania in 1959.

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...

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.

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...

Hilja Heinsoo

Born in 1932 in Estonia, in 1949 deported with parents to Irkutsk oblast in Siberia, back home in 1955.