Commemorative candle. The Taimyr Region during the years of political repressions. Memoirs
Irma Petrovna Ausinsch (maiden name Root) was born on the river Volga on the 10th of March 1925. She live in the Autonomous Taimyr Region as a special resettler as from the 1st of July 1942 until July 1956.
I was deported together with Maria Mittelmaier, Emma Schermer, Amalie Hafner, Frieda Hafner, Maria Reisner, Olga Reisner, Irma Reisner, Artur Ausinsch, Senta Ausinsch, Teodor Reuter, Raimond Reuter, Regina Schmidt, Helmi Chunna, Sula Chunna, Erna Güntrer, Wolodja Liebert, David Rimer, Milda Tiltenbrens and many, many more poeple.
We found our first shelter in the settlement of Karaul, Ust-Yeniseysk District; then we were taken to different islands, where we had to work for the fising industry as from the very first day; later all resettlers worked in different places: Ladygin Yar, Nosonovsk, Baikalovsk, Sidorovsk, Yakovlevsk and many other places. I stayed in Ladygin Yar until 1947. We were all working as fishermen and -women. On the 10th of July I wastransferred to the fish cannery in Ust-Port, where I used to work until 1957.
If February 1951 I gor married to Artur Teodorovich Ausinsch. He is a Lett, was born in Latvia in 1921. He was also deported; the two of us first met in Ladygin Yar, where we worked together. We have two children, two sons - Harry and Alfred. Both were born in Ust-Port.My husbands mother, Anna Friedrichovna Ausinsch, lived in our family, as well. She died already herein Venspils. We removed to Venspils in 1959.
Irma Petrovna Ausinsch.
Latvia, Ventspils, 29th of June 1990
Excerpt from a letter to the regional archive.