"Memorial" opens an exhibition about women in the Gulag

On October 6, the exhibition “Material” dedicated to the material memory of the Gulag will begin work in the international memorial* in Moscow. Most of the objects and documents presented in the exposition, reminiscent of the years spent in prison, were preserved and transferred to the international memorial by the former prisoners and their descendants.

According to the website of the international memorial , the exhibition does not aim to cover the huge topic "Woman in the Gulag."

“We only wanted to show how in a few and unique things the memory of the camp is manifested, what the point of these objects carry in themselves - reminiscent of the fate of many thousands of prisoners. Those who managed to save these things understood what they were talking about, the organizers of the exhibition write.

“What could be accumulated over the years of camp life? Take away with you in a home -made plywood suitcase? What to save, for a long time without your corner? The collection of the International Memorial collected over 30 years shows with all the obviously that it is most often objects of fabric, from different material , which was so value for women in conclusion. ”

The exposition uses quotes from the memoirs of Olga Adamova-Sliosberg, Nina Bardina, Rosalia Blok-Bars, Margaret Buber-Neiman, Hares of Funny, Yadvigi Verzhenskaya, Khava Volovich, Raisa Volynskaya, Nina Gagen-Torn, Evgenia Ginzburg, Hope Grankina, Mr. Goldberg, Marina Dushkina, Marina Dushkina, Marina Dushkina, Marina Dushkina, Marina Dushkina. Elena Zhukovskaya, Veroniki Znamenskaya, Juliana Ilzen-Titkova, Maria Ioffe, Lyudmila Kasyan, Irina Kules, Valentina Kurilkina, Ekaterina Kukharskaya, Nadezhda Larina-Bukharina, Galina Levinson, Tatyana Leshchenko-Sukhulina, Fanny Lukashova, Zoya Marchenko, AGNESS MIRONOVA, AGNISSI Paulins of Myasnikova, Ekaterina Olitskaya, Tamara Petkevich, Susanna Pechuro, Angelina Ror, Maria Sandratskaya, Maria Sevortyan, Galina Semenova, Rufi Tamarina, Vera Uspenskaya, Vera Ustieva, Hella Fisher, Vera Schulz, Zili Yankovskaya.

Curators - Irina Shcherbakova, Irina Ostrovskaya, Alena Kozlova.

The exhibition "Material" in the international memorial will last until March 15, 2023 .

The exhibition partners are the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland and the branch of the Henry Bello Foundation in the Russian Federation

* The international memorial is included in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of NGOs that perform the function of a foreign agent