Timeline
What the families remembered, arranged in time. Some dates are approximate; Nohrikha’s birth and death remain unknown.
Colours distinguish the family accounts. Dotted lines mark gaps in what is known.
Nohrikha was remembered as living in Bolshaya Bukon, Kazakhstan, before leaving for China. The departure date is unknown.
My grandfather was born. He would later often say the name “Babka Nohrikha”.
His German relatives were deported from the Volga region and subsequently lived in the Urals.
Zhanna Drozdovskaya’s mother was born in China in 1942.
According to family history, some of my grandfather’s relatives moved from Kazakhstan to the Urals.
Zhanna’s family returned from China to Kazakhstan. Nohrikha apparently remained in Bolshaya Bukon, while they settled in Beskaragay, Pavlodar Region.
Most of Zhanna’s family moved from Pavlodar Region to Latvia.
Online searches for the name, followed by the discovery of a play mentioning Babka Nohrikha.
Correspondence brought a new family account of the woman known as Babka Nohrikha.
What we still hope to learn
Nohrikha’s first name, the dates of her life, the details of her travels—and how her memory reached my grandfather’s family.
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