Their childhood and coming of age fell on the hardest years in the history of the Crimean Tatars: famine, war, deportation, and life in special settlements, which long robbed the entire people of their freedom. But they failed to stifle Crimean Tatar culture – the tragic experience of our people gave rise to an entire generation of talented writers and poets who managed to preserve in their works the memory of what every Crimean Tatar had to endure. Emil Amit, Uriye Edemova, Isa Abduraman, Ervin Umerov – these are just a few names of writers born in 1934-1944 – the last decade before the criminal exile.