Femmes en déportation

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Young people on the kolkhoz
© Valli Arrak

Drawing of “Siberian costumes” of Valli Arrak’s friends, drawn by her on 23 November 1952
© Valli Arrak

A brigade of working girls
© Rimgaudas Ruzgyz

A women’s brigade building a railway
© Rimgaudas Ruzgyz

A working brigade logging
© Rimgaudas Ruzgyz

Women working
© Rimgaudas Ruzgyz

A birthday
© Rimgaudas Ruzgyz

Anatanas Kybartas’s mother in a group of women
© Anatanas Kybartas

Resettlers from the same railway wagon. Anatanas Kybartas is the youngest
© Anatanas Kybartas

Funeral of Danuta Wojciechowska’s sister in Kazakhstan
© Danuta Wojciechowska

Celebration in a resettlement village
© Irina Tarnavska

Women in deportation

These photographs are not all intended to show how many women there were in deportation. Some rather reveal the sharp segregation: the work brigades were often arranged like that, separating men and women. Social life also often depended on gatherings of girls together or boys together.

But some photographs do clearly show the high proportion of women.

In every case, they reveal a certain atmosphere, underpinned by gender relations.