Place
Akmol
Village near Astana, Kazakhstan; the site of the ALZHIR camp and of the museum that now stands there.
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- ALZHIR camp Scholarship & press 12
- ALZHIR Museum and Memorial Complex Scholarship & press 1
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The largest women's camp (ALZHIR), Qazaqstan tarihy (e-history.kz).
Scholarship & press
The museum is located on the territory of the present village of Akmol - on the site of the former 26 point of labor, where the Akmola special division of the Karlag NKVD was established, which later became known as the “Akmola Camp of wives of traitors to the Motherland” (ALZHIR).
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ALZHIR - A Place of Remembrance, Voices on Central Asia.
Scholarship & press
In December 1937, in a village near today’s Nursultan (Astana), a small camp consisting of several clay huts, four towers, and barbed wire had been built and the first group of women—with children from one to three years old—arrived in Akmolinsk on January 6, 1938.
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