Fatima Gazzaeva, 1955 d.b., a dweller of a village Khvtce Dzausky region, RSO:
I often heard about the history of genocide of the ossetian people in the twenties of the XX century from my grandmother Gano Dzhagaeva. When the punitive detachments of the Georgian menshevists assaulted upon the villages of South Ossetia, my grandmother lived in the village Zghubir in Dzausky region. She was married and had four small children. The family was large and friendly.
There were good conditions for agriculture and stock-breeding in the beautiful highland village. Like their neighbours, the family of my grandmother was working hard and had its own farm. When it became known, that the Georgian punitive troops were sent to Ossetia for destruction of the ossetians, the dwellers of the village Zghubir decided to run away beyond the mounteen pass. Gano`s husband and also several young men made up their mind to remain and protect their native village from the georgian robbers. Gano and her children ran to North Ossetia with the other villagers. Two of her youngest children could not outlive the road, full of deprivations and hardships. The kids were buried hastily, but a broken -hearted mother went further on with the other children. The refugees reached the village Zakka in North Ossetia and made up their mind to remain there. But even in this Gano has not luck. It began the epidemic of typhus. Two of the living children fell also ill. In spite of the efforts of their mother, she did not manage to save them. In several days following their death, the men who had remained in Zghubir arrived in the village to call on their families. Sorrowful news they brought to Gano: her husband and his fellow-villagers had been defending the approaches to Zghubir, and in the course of the skirmish the Georgian menshevists- outnumbered much more and better armed - had killed her husband. The woman was mourning over her family, cursing the monsters, who had left her without a family. Being in despair, she decided to commit suicide, but at the last moment she thought she would return in her native village and live there to spite of her enemies. Time has passed. The Soviet power has been proclaimed in South Ossetia. Gano with her fellow-villagers returned in Zghubir. Somehow she arranged a funeral feast in memory of her perished family. And in several years she married my grandfather and gave birth to seven children. Two of them perished during the Great Patriotic War.
