Camp number “TI-245”. BerLag. 1949. It belonged to Katerina Bazhilevskaia (possibly Bazilevskaia), who was arrested in 1946 in Leningrad. It is kept in the Museum of the Occupation (Tallin). It was given to the Museum by a former political prisoner, Aadu Ol’. (Photo: November, 2010).

The home-made device for catching fish was found in the area of the Vorkuta-Vom jetty in 2004 during a school local history expedition led by I.V. Vitman and O.A. Gudovanyi. It is kept in the History and Geology Museum “A Town in the North of Russia” in School No.14. (Vorgashor Settlement, Vorkuta)....

Self-made New Year’s greetings card. 1952. “Zapolyarnyi” Camp Section of the RechLag (Vorkuta-Vom, Komi ASSR). It was made by Mariia Chaika, an artist in the "Zapolyarnyi” Camp Section Children’s Home, as a present for Elena Vladimirovna Markova (née Ivanova; born 1923), another camp inmate. In May...

Self-made greetings-card. 1948. Camp Section No.2, VorkutLag (Komi ASSR). It was made by Vladimir Vlasovich Ignatov (1918-?), a political prisoner, as a present for Elena Vladimirovna Markova (née Ivanova, born 1923). On the back there is a poem by V.V. Ignatov. In May, 1943, the latter was sentenced...

An embroidered greetings card with a message. 1951. It belonged to Regina Majoraitė (born 1923), a female political prisoner, who was iimprisoned in SevVostLag (Magadan oblast') from 1948 to 1955. The text is embroidered in Lithuanian, and reads: “Happy Name Day”. It is kept in the Palanga Museum of...

Self-made greetings card. The greetings are dated 29.12.1954. The card was given to Petronele Aksamitauskaite (born 1923) on her birthday by her friends in the camp (OzerLag or AngarLag, Irkutsk oblast') or when she was in exile in Siberia. Petronele Aksamitauskaite was sentenced in June 1948 to 25...

A home-made hammer. Second half of the 1940s. It was made by Antanas Rushkis (born 1924), a political prisoner, in one of the camps in Kemerovo oblast' (Taiga Station). In November, 1945 (1946?) Antanas Rushkis was sentenced to 10 years in a corrective labour camps followed by 5 years of internal exile....

A lime-kiln inspection hatch. 1940s to 1950s. Camp Section Dzhintui, PechorLag (Komi ASSR). The Camp Section was in existence from 1939 to 1957. The main type of work done there was extraction of limestone for producing lime. Next to the quarry there were ovens in which firing (calcining) took place....

Mosquito net. Late 1940s. It was made by the exile Morte Bulaite (born 1912) in the Taishet Region of Irkutsk Province. It is kept in the "Aušros" Museum in Šiaulių (Lithuanian Republic). It was given to the Museum by M. Bulaite in 1990. (Photo: December, 2010).

N.A. Miller. “The Story of a Search”. Drawing. 1955. Ukhta Region, Komi ASSR. Paper, pencil, charcoal. Nikolai Andreevich Miller (1922-1993) was an artist and a sculptor. He was sentenced to 25 years in the camps in 1948. He was imprisoned in the Komi Corrective Labour Camp, Komi ASSR (1948-1956). When...

A camp name tab belonging to Arvo Pesti (1956-2010). In the period 1984-1986 he was imprisoned in the Perm’ Political Camps (“Perm’-35”, “Perm’-37”). The name tab is kept in the Museum of the Occupation (Tallinn) to which A. Pesti donated it sometime after the year 2000. (Photo: November, 2010)

Oktiabrina Ivanovna Babushkina (née Mel’nikova). Dated 06.11.1995, Susuman, Magadan oblast'. Photograph. Oktiabrina Ivanovna was born in 1935 into a family who had been de-kulakized. In 1931, her parents were deported as a “socially dangerous elements” to Tupik Village (Chita oblast', nowadays Zabaikal...

A decorative pillow case with a lace frame. 1952. It was made by Marite (Marija) Jurevičiūtė (born 1925), a political prisoner, in Kengir Camp (Kraganda oblast'). It is kept in the Palanga Museum of Resistance and Exile (Palangos, Lithuanian Republic). (Photo: December, 2010).

A linen pillow case to fit a small pillow. It belonged to the political prisoner Olaf Tammark who was in Dzhezdy Camp in 1947. At the beginning of 2000, O. Tammark gave the pillowcase to the Museum of the Occupation (Tallin). (Photo November 2010).

A pillow case made by Evgeniia Solomonovna Grosblat (1900-1982) in Tomsk Camp for Family Members of Traitors to the Fatherland in 1938-1939. She made it from some camp-issue overalls, using threads pulled out of underwear. When E.S. Grosblat returned to Moscow in 1954, the pillow case was kept by her...