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 On
January 22 in Republican Lermontov Theatre of Russian Drama "Meeting"
club held a soiree dedicated to the victims of Stalin's repressions. The cause
for the meeting was "Pages of Tragic Lives" book prepared and published
by Kazakhstani historico-educational society "Adilet" ("Justice")
and the Archive of the President of Kazakhstan. The book includes recollections
of 66 people repressed during the totalitarian regime.
The meeting was opened by the members of the Jewish community of
Almaty city - Tamara Ilyina and Michail Zeltser, who served time together
with their mothers in the Akmolinsk camp of parricides' wives (ALZHIR). Then
the authors of the book came up the stage. Among them were Fyodor Osadchy, who
served in German and Soviet camps; Irina Suleymenova and Nikolay Yalymov, who
became orphans after their parents' execution; Alexander Sabinin born in Karaganda
concentration camp.
Saule, the daughter of the first Kazakh violinist Aitkesh Tolgonbayev,
told her father's unbelievable story. Film director Alexander Golovinsky commented
on the shots he took in Malinovka village (former ALZHIR).
The soiree was led by the organizer of the meeting, the editor of "Davar"
Jewish community newspaper Ludmila Varshavskaya-Eniseyeva.
Galina Myasnikova |
