Asie Centrale

Inaugurated in 2007 on the site of the only Soviet concentration camp to have incarcerated an all-female population, the « Akmola Camp for the Wives of Traitors to the Fatherland » (ALZhYR) memorial reminds us that Kazakhstan was, during the period of Stalinist repression, a land of deportation and imprisonment in the Gulag. From 1938 until its closure in 1953, the Alzhyr camp saw the passage of 18,000 women (8,000 of whom remained in relegation), wives, mothers, sisters, or daughters of « enemies of ...