Reclaiming the History of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars through One Family Story
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2024

This personal essay presents stories told by three generations of Crimean Tatar women -my grandmother, my mother, and myself -about our evolving relationship with Crimea and its history from 1937 to 2022.Denied the right to know or remember tragic events, such as my great-grandfather's arrest and execution in 1937-1938 and the deportation of Crimean Tatars in 1944, my grandmother was only able to reclaim her history after the collapse of the Soviet Union and our return to Crimea from Uzbekistan