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keywords: Italian origins – Kerch – kolkhoz  Sacco and Vanzetti – The Great Purge – deportation – Kazakhstan

synthesis: father of Italian origins – Civil War in 1918 - Uncle in Italy– Brother is drafted in the military in Italy – father: worker in the kolkhoz Sacco e Vanzetti and a fisherman – uncle and grandfather are seamen. – family lives at Kerch - stories about working in the Kolkhoz Sacco and Vanzetti – the Italian community meets the Soviet power – arrest – deportation to Kazakhstan (1942/1947): dramatic telling of the trip, the labor camp, the second village – brother in prison – father's death. Return to Kerch – help from friends - difficulty in finding a job – Italians discriminated – No help from Italy.  Family photos.

subject biography: Born in Kech on 1911. the paternal grandfather (Raffaello Petrinka, seaman) comes from Southern Italy and arrives in Crimea at around 14/15 years of age. His father, Antonio Petrinka, marries the Russian Tatiana Cicera, and works in the Italian koklkhoz Sacco e Vanzetti, where he does fish-drying. Afte three years of schooling, even Rosa enters the kolkhoz. In 1942 she gets deported with the entire family to  Kazakhstan, in the village of Astana, where she works at another kolkhoz. After the liberation she returns to Kerch. Currently the sons of the brother Michele live in italy. Rehabilitated. Lives at Kerch.