Irena Kawaschová
In March 1945 she was arrested and taken by Soviet soldiers to Kolyma, where her son Ján was born in the Gulag. After 1953 she returned to Slovakia...
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...
Leopold Brumek
Druhý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror „Prchajíce před kapitalistickým vykořisťováním a nezaměstnaností, přijeli před třinácti lety 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.
Hilja Heinsoo
Born in 1932 in Estonia, in 1949 deported with parents to Irkutsk oblast in Siberia, back home in 1955.
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...
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...
Leonid Levko Dohovich
Born in 1935, for political protests he was sentenced to ten years in the Gulag in 1950 at the age of 14. After attempting to escape, he was senten...
Tomáš Hájek
Čtvrtý díl z dokumentárního cyklu Češi a Velký teror
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Resistance fighter, journalist, writer, literary critic, soldier and Gulag survivor, he belonged to the generation of people brought up in Poland b...
Yevgenia Varasova
Dvacátá léta dvacátého století, Praha. Černobílá fotografie: uprostřed Jaroslav Heyrovský, vynálezce polarografie. Muž, který se o tři dekády pozdě...
Adolf Kučera
Koncem 30. let se Sovětským svazem přelila brutální vlna státního teroru proti vlastním obyvatelům. Oběťmi byli často občané „podezřelých“ národnos...
Wanda Chwastowska-Bystram
Born on 30 April 1916, she was sentenced to ten years for espionage and deported to Perm in 1945. She went through harsh camps in Lyovshin and Bere...
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.
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.
Roland Bude
A Czech German arrested in 1950 for his political involvement with the Stasi and handed over to the NKVD. He was sentenced to 25 years and deported...
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...
Ivan Kováč - From Prague to the Gulag to Solzhenitsyn
The unknown story of a man abducted by the Soviets from Prague to the Gulag in 1948. There he led a successful revolt and inspired Alexander Solzhe...
Stanisław Akucewicz
Franciszek Michał Amałowicz „Tatar”
Jiří Bezděk