Surgun: Deportation of Crimean Tatars (18 May 1944)

Reports, Documents and Articles:

Stalin's Order to Deport Crimean Tatars Was Based on False Reports by Inci A. Bowman (2010)

The False Charges of Treason against the Crimean Tatars by J. Otto Pohl (2010)

Surgun Stories by Inci Bowman

65th Anniversary of Deportations from Crimea, Ukraine by Inci Bowman

Remarks to Commemorate 65th Anniversary of Crimean Tatar Deportation by Stalin Regime by O. Aleksandrovych

May 18, 1944 — May 18, 2007 by Idil P. Izmirli

62nd Anniversary of the Day of Mourning in Crimea: 18 May 2006 by Idil P. Izmirli

On the 61th Anniversary of Surgun: The Story of Aysecik by Mubeyyin Altan

On the 60th Anniversary of the Surgun: Mass Deportation of Crimean Tatars by Mubeyyin B. Altan

59th Anniversary of Surgun — Mass Deportation of Crimean Tatars: American Children's View by Mubeyyin B. Altan

Crimean Tatar Memorial Day of Deportation — Simferopol, 2002 by Idil P. Izmirli

When Will This Ever End? by Mubeyyin B. Altan

Timeline: Deportation of Crimean Tatars and their National Struggle under Soviet Rule by J. Otto Pohl

"And this Must be Remembered!" Stalin's Ethnic Cleansing of the Crimean Tatars by J. Otto Pohl

Soviet Decree 5859s: On the Crimean Tatars, 11 May 1944

Appeal of the Crimean Tatar people to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (March 1966)

Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (5 September 1967)

Speech of Petro Grigorenko to Crimean Tatars, 1968

The Arabat Tragedy: Another Page from the Surgun by Mubeyyin Altan

Preface by Refat Chubarov

The Deportation and Fate of the Crimean Tatars by J. Otto Pohl

Crimean Tatars' Ongoing Tragedy by Mubeyyin B. Altan

On the 55th Anniversary of the Mass Deportation of Crimean Tatars from Their Homeland by Mubeyyin B. Altan

Three Answers to the Soviet Decree #5859ss by Mubeyyin B. Altan

Surgun Stories Series (Personal Narratives by Survivors or Eye-witness Accounts)

• Memoirs by Memet Abdulla
• From Yaliboyu to the Deserts of Uzbekistan by Arire N. Idrisli
• Memories by Olga Korniyasenko
• Painful Pages of My Life by Umus Resitova
• Memoirs by Serife Umer
• A Soviet Soldier's View by A.L. Vesnin
• Meeting the Survivors of Surgun (Deportation) by Zafer Karatay (a producer, not a survivor)

Arabat Tragedy Series

• Arabat Tragedy-Introduction
• The Arabat Tragedy I: New Facts about the Mass Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
• The Arabat Tragedy II: A Mother's Cry
• The Arabat Tragedy III: Confessions of an Eyewitness
• The Arabat Tragedy IV: A Ballad
• Map of Azov Sea
• See also: The Arabat Tragedy: Another Page from the Surgun by Mubeyyin Altan