Itkin Abram Yudovich

Thanks to E.S. Ginzburg for the book “Steep Route”, confirmation of the veracity of this story, since the author walked the same “steep route”, along the same path.
Very brief information about yourself. Murder of S.M. Kirov. Expulsion from the Komsomol for failure to attend a meeting regarding the murder (she was ill). A few months later, in February 1935, the apartment was searched. There are forbidden Discussion Papers in the older brother's room. Taking the brother's blame. Arrest of the author and the husband of one of the sisters. Prison "Crosses". The sentence is exile to four years in Yakutsk. Two-month stage by train. Carriage life. The route on foot and on horseback to Yakutsk. Meeting with my sister and her two-year-old son. Work as an accountant. Meeting with a Leningrader I knew from prison. Marriage. Seeing off my husband on his way to Kolyma. Birth of a daughter. Help from the exiled Mostovsky I.V. Inability to get a job. Application with a request to take her and the child to prison due to lack of means of subsistence. Jail. Unfulfilled hopes of meeting my husband. Thoughts that he was shot. The new term is 5 years in Kolyma. During the stage, the death of the daughter. Wintering in a barracks. Hospital. Help from a hospital doctor from Leningrad. After the end of the five-year period, the stay in the camp is for another five years. Liberation in July 1947, then another four years in exile. Words of gratitude to the people who helped the author survive.

The abstract was compiled by T.G. Zhidkova.