Tamara Filatova was 19 years old in 1948 when she was sentenced to 20 years in the gulag for the “crime” of being an ethnic German. Part of her sentence was served at the Dneprovsky labor camp in the brutal Far Eastern mining region known as Kolyma.

She was freed from custody on March 16, 1955, during the wave of de-Stalinization following the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.

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