The Temirtau City Museum hosted the conference "Without words. Silence", devoted to the Mass Political Repressions’s Victims Remembrance Day and starvation Day on May 31, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. Unique documents revealed as a result of the research work of the Temirtau City Museum were presented at the conference.
The conference was attended by
Deputy Akim of Temirtau city- Ziyashev Samat Sayatovich.
Historian, veteran teacher, writer, member of the Kazakhstan Journalists Union - Magziev Zhumagali Diyarovich.
Rakhimbekova Karlygash Sultanbekovna - granddaughter of Keshke Kemengeruly - Kazakh educator, writer, activist of the Alash party, executed in 1937
Pimonova Alla Ionasovna - daughter of Valyukenas Ionas son of Lozas - sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp, organizer of the first pop music group in the Temirtau city.
representatives of the Aksakals Council of the Temirtau city, the City Council of Veterans and the youth of the city.
The archival documents discovered by the Temirtau Museum are placed on the installation, which complements the main exhibition of the hall "History of the Temirtau city".
One part of the installation is a symbolic barracks bunk. A tragic attribute of the carriages and concentration camps of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Bags with tags are placed on the bunks. On the tags are numbers. This is an approximate number of those sent to Kazakhstan based on their nationality: Germans, Poles, Koreans, Caucasians... No one counted them exactly, as if they were not people, but ordinary bags, thrown into carriages and sent away from their native places.
In the center of the installation is a pole, as if torn out of a camp fence. PCIA camps were located practically throughout the entire territory of the Republic. Kazakhstan became a huge prison in which thousands of people died.
On the remains of the prison pole are declassified documents from the archives of the National Security Commissariat concerning the fates of Temirtau city’s residents during the era of totalitarianism: sentences of the PCIA Troika, acts on the execution of sentences, photographs of prisoners from the Archives of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kazakhstan Republic for the Karaganda Region.
Unique exhibits are also presented here: personal belongings of Karlag prisoners and those who lived in a settlement in the city of Temirtau (until 1945 – Samarkand settlement): diaries, handwritten memoirs, musical instruments and literature. A photo album with the crossed-out names of “enemies of the people”, books with recommendations for identifying “traitors to the Motherland”, attributes and an PCIA employee’s certificate were presented.
Some of the memories collected by the museum were published in the “Collection of Memories of Temirtau city residents about the Era of Stalin’s Repressions”, which was presented to the conference participants.
