Born in 1934.
Parents: Polonia Yegorovna Suppes, born in 1909; Albert Albertovich Suppes.
There were five children (4 brothers and a sister).
The lived in the hamlet of Kamenskoe (Saratov Region).
They became victims of repressions in 1941; the were first taken to Krasnoyarsk
(he does not recall how they got there, but he thinks there were horses – they
probably went to the station by horse). In Krasnoyarsk they had to board a
steamship, which took them to Smorodinka.
In Kamenskoe they had been handed out a receipt containing a list of all their property, but they never received anything back for it. They were placed to live in a horse stable in Ust-Tunguska with five families altogether. There were cases of mixed marriages.
They came to mobilize his father to the trud army; after his return he got married and stayed in Reschoty, Krasnoyarsk territory.
Ewald Albertovich did not study, never was an apprentice. He worked for the kolkhoz farm as a cowherd and swineherd until 1955.
Interviewed by Anna Tarkhova and Svetlana Aliseiko
(AB – comments by Aleksei Babiy, Krasnoyarsk “Memorial”)
Fifth expedition of history and human rights, Novokargino 2008