ALGIR was the main camp of the USSR, whereto the closest relatives of the convicts were sent during the repressions. Between 1938 and 1953, more than 100 women from Latvia as wives, sisters, and daughters of the “traitors of the Motherland” were imprisoned here. In total, there were more than 18,000 women and their children in the camp, many of whom died under inhumane conditions.
"When attending the Memorial, I expressed my gratitude for the fact that the victims of a totalitarian regime were honoured in Kazakhstan, because it is important not to forget the past so that development in the future would be possible,” noted the President of Latvia.
