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and after a year their daughter Velta was born (1955), after two years ñ
another daughter Ruta (1957). In 1957, R. Redzobs with his wife and
daughters returned to their homeland ñ Saliena and in 1964 their third
daughter Ausma was born there. In his native land, the narrator worked on
collective farms in Saliena parish till retirement age in 1990. At present, he
and his wife run their family farm.
The interview was held at the house of R. Redzobsí daughter Ruta Timofeyeva
in Daugavpils. The narrator and his wife Z. Redzoba had come
to the city and were in a hurry to return home before dark, therefore the
interview was focused on a single topic ñ deportation. Lack of time affected
the manner of R. Redzobsí narration, he basically answered questions, and
sometimes in a very laconic manner. The narrator recalled the years spent
in deportation and was able to produce details concerning work on the
collective farm (equipment, payment, etc.), relations with the local
inhabitants, the collective farm and the special command administration,
and the regulation of the lives of those who had been deported, etc.
Life-Story of Efrosinia Silchonok (fragment)
Efrosinia Silchonokís life-story, interview undertaken by IrÁna Saleniece
in ìSelik‚niî, Saliena parish of Daugavpils region, 30 June, 2004. The record
of the interview (1 tape, 60 minutes, in Russian) is kept in the archives of
the Oral History Centre at Daugavpils University, catalogue No. 180, abbreviated
ñ DU MV: 180.
Efrosinia Selyavina was born in 1941 in Saliena parish of Il˚kste region,
in the large family of Vassa and Ivan Selyavin. After leaving Saliena sevenyear
school in 1957, Efrosinia worked on a collective farm; in 1960 she got
married to Piotr Silchonok and they left for Kolyma in the Far East of the
USSR where their son Nikolai was born in 1961. In 1965, the Silchonok
family returned to Latvia and settled in Riga where Efrosinia worked as a
cook and the head of a canteen. In 1968, their daughter Svetlana was born.
Since 1991, Efrosinia Silchonok and her husband have been living in Saliena
parish keeping the ìSelik‚niî farm and bringing up two grandchildren after
their daughterís death.
The interview was held at Efrosinia Silchonokís house. The narrator
was open and very welcoming, but at the same time keeping to her own
opinion. During the interview she tried to provide the maximum information;
some facts she mentioned referred to what she had been told by older relatives
as she is too young to have witnessed them. One of her most conspicuous
childhood memories is March 25, 1949, when, as an eight-year old child
she witnessed her grandmother Agafia Skladovaís deportation and her
grandfather Elisei Skladovís decision to follow his wife. This episode of her
life-story the narrator related in a very emotional manner.
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