Prison photograph from Solikamsk - Mikuláš Végh
The following items and documents illustrate various forms of Soviet repression and Gulag camps. They are a selection of items mapped during expeditions, archival materials and objects and documents belonging to individual survivors.
Photograph from the investigation file — Jan Plovajko
Poems
Handwritten poems written to a prisoner, author unknown.
Arrest photograph — Václav Djačuk
Photograph from the investigation file — Mikuláš Végh
Diagram – drawing 2
Technical drawing
Aurora papirosas 1
Aurora papirosas wrapper
Priboj papirosas
Priboj papirosas wrapper
Food bowl 1
Aluminum bowl for eating
Medicine bottle
Glass medicine bottle
Paint pot 2
Metal pot used for working with paint
Matchbox 2
Sibir brand matchbox
Name card - Vladimir Francevich Vesseris
Every prisoner had his own specific place on the bunks. This was marked by a sign stating the following information: name, patronymic, surname, yea...
Name card - uknown (1)
Every prisoner had his own specific place on the bunks. This was marked by a sign stating the following information: name, patronymic, surname, yea...
Wheelbarrow
A wheelbarrow, or rather a shear (no wheel), to carry uranium ore in mines in a camp in the Marble Gorge.
Prisoner’s diary
Notebook with diary entries, technical drawings and diagrams.
Package from 40% glucose solution 1
Suitcase — Pavel Zoc
Suitcase with which Paul Zoc returned from a Gulag camp back to Czechoslovakia
Credit book
Credit book with monthly record of percentage of work performed and related change to end of performance of punishment.
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New Year's letter
A New Year’s greeting for 1953 that we found unburned in the stove of an abandoned camp.
Work glove 1
Winter cloth work glove
Envelope to Ermakovo 1
Letter envelope addressed to Ermakovo
Cap
Prisoner's cap from the Barabanikha cam
Door Handle
Door handle from prisoner`s barracks
Work boot
Work boot from the Barabanikha cam