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Zalanash

Zhalanash is known as a "dead lake" near Akmolinsk.

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...

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Zalanash

Gertrud Platais - German in female camp

Evženie Věsniková-Němečková - Family in the grip of the Gulag and the Gestapo

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