Аbout export to Siberia
Categories: Family, Antonina Melne
Story-teller: “I grew up alone, the herds tended grazing cattle, we had even four cows. The pasture was far away. About a kilometre in that direction. I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere!”
Interviewer: “The dearest daughter?”
Story-teller: “Oh, I was loved very much, I was given dainties because I grew alone.”
Interviewer: “As a child, did you experience that there was that deportation to Siberia?”
Story-teller: “At that time my father did not stay for nights in the house. I don’t know why but a lot of people from this area were deported. He also took care of us for us not to be deported, we were ready for that. Our clothes were tied into parcels, but it somehow happened that we stayed. We had an acquaintance – that head of the civil parish, maybe, he stood up for us, too. Though we did not have a lot of land, but we lived very well. My father and my mother always had enough money, and my father was not a drunkard, so to say, they were economical people.”
Interviewer: “Were a lot of neighbours deported?”
Story-teller: “No, not many from Rogovka! Those who lived further were deported! My, the one, who now works, works at the chemist’s, she was a packer, she was deported, Vera Pujaca, she herself is from Rogovka.”
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Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte
