Album 1. Section 2

September 1940 - June 1941

Summary

Deprived of her house and property from July 1940 Euphrosinia came under further persecution and social segregation. Having no Soviet identification papers, she decided against living someone else's roof not to lead anybody into a scrape. She slept at the places of her temporary work - at the College farm, in the gardens, at the vine-yards.

As the elections were scheduled on January 1, 1941, when the turnout had to be 100 per cent a day earlier she got the Soviet passport but with Paragraph 39, banning her from living in large cities. That happened after the questioning at the NKVD where she didn't conceal her views.

In winter Euphrosinia lived in a little room at the place of her Mother's friend, Emma Yakovlevna Gnanch-Dobrovolskaya, in Soroca. She was privately employed for stump extraction, wood bucking in the forest, sawing of firewood in the city. She worked worked alone as the NKVD barred people from working with her threatening them with the expulsion from the labour union. Only contacts with the family of Soviet officer Drobotenko quartering at Emma Yakovlevna's place and epistolary intercourse with her Mother saved her from complete solitary.

In the early hours of June 13, 1941, NKVD officers came for Euphrosinia when she was away. She refused to escape and hide and voluntarily went to the exile together with other Bessarabians.