Sample Page – Immortal Barracks – Courage to Inspire Us

Here is an example how this Russian memorial database works. In the Russian original version (non-Google translated) you can scroll through the page of portrait pictures.¹

You can also choose to display the victims of Soviet repression by name plates.

When you click on any one these portrait pictures or name plates, you will call up the space for this person in the database.

For example Mrs. Sarra Heilemann, prosecuted for her ethnic background being German

*File card for Mrs. Geileman, Sarra Adamovna*

Translation of File Card

Geileman, Sarra Adamovna
Date of birth: March 6, 1926
Date of death: March 7, 1989, aged 64
Nationality: German
Place of birth: Krasnodar region, Russia (formerly RSFSR)
Sentenced: on ethnic grounds
Verdict: special settlement
Data source: Certificate updated based on information from relatives
Book of Memory: List of Repressed People from the Krasnodar Region

Photo card index

From the relatives
Sara Adamovna is my grandmother. She was sent to a special settlement along with her mother and brothers. First to Kazakhstan, and from there to the Arkhangelsk region for logging. There I met my grandfather Geileman Erich Wilhelmovich. In the photo are grandparents and their children.
Elena Voldymarovna Snimshchikova

The Photo Card Index Tab reveals some photos, that have been provided by the relatives.

Four photos with Sarra Geilemann, provided by her relatives

Here are those photos:

*Sarra is seen at the left side, her husband at the right hand side*

*Another family photo – Sarra and her husband appear younger here*

*This may be the picture, where Sarra and her husband are at the oldest age*

If you are looking for a specific person, you can search by name: “Geileman, Sarra” – for example

*Result of a search by name – you need to search with the cyrillic alphabet*

From the database you can also see what the “crime” and the “verdict” were. And it shows where the information came from in the first place. For Mrs. Geileman this was “List of Repressed from Krasnodar”.

*Pages showing where source data came from …*

On that page you can also call up the alphabetic list of people, who were incarcerated by the Soviet state authorities.

*Alphabetic Display of People from the Krasnodar List of Repressed*

You can click on any name and see if there is more information. If there is not, you can supply information if you are a relative or a friend.

There is more to discover on immortal barracks, but my translation work ends here for today.
I hope you like this project and tell your friends about it.

Immortal barracks – Introduction

Footnotes

In the Google translated version this does not work, due to the intermediary of Google. ↩︎