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ALZhIR women’s camp (1938–53)

On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “ALZhIR”

1938–1953 — Near Akmolinsk, thousands of women were held in the “Akmolinsk Camp for Wives of Traitors to the Motherland”. Their offence was marriage to men arrested in the Terror; their children were sent to orphanages. A memorial museum opened at the site in 2007.

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Site of memory
Chapter
Women and daily life under Stalin (chapter 9 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
Atlas
The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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Map showing ALZhIR women’s camp (1938–53), site of memory in The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
SITE OF MEMORY · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

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