On January 27, Evgenia Genova’s book Crimean Tatar Families was published, which tells how 14 Crimean Tatar families went through numerous trials at different times. Each time they suffered from the same enemy, no matter what new name he came up with for himself each time: either the Russian Empire, or the USSR, or the Russian Federation.
“These stories are about how, despite executions, torture, deportations, prisons, expulsion and occupation, the Crimean Tatar people is returning home. It always returns because it cannot help but love and cannot help but return”,- writes the author of the book on her Facebook page.
Evgenia emphasizes that in the book the reader can read about exhausted teenagers who pick cotton in the hungry steppe of Uzbekistan, the despair of a woman who is kicked out of her home, the grief of the wife of a deceased defender of Ukraine.
“But these families are united not only by common pain, but also by a common desire: to regain their homeland, to live in a free Crimea”,- adds Evgenia.
Among the 14 stories described in the book there is the story of Bariiev family, which covers the events of 2014 and also pays much attention to the trials that each member of this family went through decades before.
The book comprehensively describes the experience that several generations of the Crimean Tatar people have gone through.
We urge you to purchase this book and become familiar with the struggle of the entire indigenous Crimean Tatar people through the examples of the stories of 14 families.
Photo: Facebook page Evgenia Genova