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In 1937 authorities started mass repressions [4]. My grandmother’s sons were arrested first. They took all her sons except Emil, the youngest, who was a schoolboy at that time.
Special NKVD [5] Troika (no public trial) sentenced my father and his elder brother Jacob to 10 years of camps without right of correspondence. As we got to know much later (after Stalin’s death) it meant execution (at bottom of fact).
Special NKVD [5] Troika (no public trial) sentenced my father and his elder brother Jacob to 10 years of camps without right of correspondence. As we got to know much later (after Stalin’s death) it meant execution (at bottom of fact).
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Russia
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Samuel Eirus