Letters from Siberia: Huseyn Javid’s Final Days and Resilient Mishkinaz

Mishkinaz had to find work to support them. She began sewing, eventually joining a cooperative named after Clara Zetkin in 1938, where she worked for nearly ten years. She sold everything she could to feed her family and bring food to Javid in prison.

Once, she gave his old, worn shoes to a cobbler. But when Javid needed shoes in prison, she had no money to buy new ones. She had to retrieve the shoes from the cobbler, saying she needed them for size reference. Such sacrifices were many.

Javid died on December 5, 1941, in a Siberian hospital for the disabled in Shevchenko village, Irkutsk, from a heart attack and sepsis due to frostbite. The family only learned of his death seven years later.

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