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Natalya Zaporozhets

Sealed with Bread [2:48]

The historian Natalya Zaporozhets was born in 1923. Her father worked as a deputy director of the NKVD in the Leningrad Region. After the murder of Sergei Kirov, her father ended up on the list of those suspected of taking part in the assassination. Her mother was sentenced to five years in the camps.

Natalya herself was arrested in 1949 and turned over to the Lubyanka Prison along with other children of enemies of the people. She was sentenced to five years of exile under the statute for anti-Soviet activities.

Natalya Zaporozhets' Interview

My neighbor seized a room from us. She took advantage of my mother's fear of everything and the fact that she didn't want to go to court with her. She asked: "Natasha, what shift is your husband working today?" I still hadn't figured out then that she was capable of that and I said: "Yes, today he's working during the day, and tomorrow at night."

And so, that night they came for me. This man came, later I saw him in prison as my investigator, a...

Themes of the entire Interview

Natalya Zaporoshets tells her story in her own lovely way.

She speaks about the circumstances in which her father was arrested and with what "crimes" he had been charged by the authorities.

Then she describes how she was herself arrested and about her experiences as a so-called "child of an enemy of the people", about her trial and the charges brought forth against her and about her exile of five years, because of supposed anti-Soviet activities...