until 1984 when he went home to the Lord after severe illness and suffering. The care which might have helped a sick person was missing. There was also no medicine. This is a short overview over life from the years 1941-1966 and 1984.

My Autobiography

I was born 20 September 1917. My first school year was 1924. I had finished four grades by 1927. Then I entered the seven-year school, agricultural middle school in the village Huck. In 1931 I became ill with typhoid, head typhus. I stayed out of school in 1934 because of illness. In 1934 I finished the seven-year school, took the exams and was accepted into the veterinary technical college in Krasnyy Kut. I finished as cattle breeder but never again worked in my specialty. I was in education in a children's home, then in a day care center.

In 1937 I married Alexander Urbach, born in 1906 in the village Stahl (am Tarlyk), Krasnoyar Kanton ASSRdWD. He worked from 1929 -1941 as a teacher of chemistry and biology. In 1941 he was deported from the village Huck to North Kazakhstan, Kokchetav District, village Akan-Vurluk. From there the men were called into the Workers' Army on 22 January 1942.

I remained with the son born 1937, daughter 1939, and then a son born in 1942. Our daughter died of diphtheria in 1939 and the son born in 1942 in the year 1945. In 1948 because of the visum sent by my husband I moved to the Tula District. He was already working in the upper level of the mine because of his health. Then in 1953 we moved with three children to our place of deportation in Kazakhstan. Here my husband worked as a teacher and I at various jobs until we were on pension. We raised eight children, bore ten and two died. From 1964 we lived in the Alma Ata District, mountain settlement Rudnichny until 1991. My son born in 1953 and I moved to Germany in 1993 and the oldest son, born in 1937, came with his son, daughter, and wife in 1995. The youngest son, born 1955, came with his wife son and daughter in 1995. In 1996 the daughter born in 1950 and the daughter born in 1958 came with their families, twelve people. At the moment the oldest daughter has her immigration permission form November with her family, six people. But there are many difficulties in leaving Kazakhstan. She worked 27 years and had counted on the 28th year of work. However, there is no money, and what she earned, she can only leave behind.

In Germany I receive my pension (widow) and my children work. Those recently arrived have completed the language courses and are studying an occupation. They receive help from the state with dwelling and furniture from the Red Cross and the churches

It is God's grace and blessing,. Therefore I thank and praise his wonderful goodness.

A few words about seeking of relatives. My uncles, Peter and Johannes Bohl, were born in the village Huck, but I cannot verify when they were born or immigrated to Canada. In the years 1927-1930 they sent us help in dollars to my mother Elizabeth Zitterkopf, born Bohl in 1874. I

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