Irma
Yulevna Hecker (Khudyakova)

On the basis of repression:

HECKER IRMA YULIEVNA (1948 KHUDYAKOV);

Room in DB :4396

B.: 28.08.1916, USA, CHICAGO

Work: IN-T izobrazitel'noye.ART STUDENT

ARREST - 10.10.41, RSFSR, MOSCOW region

Verdict: 29.04.42, 5 ITL + PP

Irmgard Khudyakov, Amalia, nee Hecker. Born in Chicago, and after the October revolution, her father, Professor of philosophy, was invited to Russia to teach. Irma Hecker and his four sisters lived and studied in Moscow. Parents because of housing problems had to leave the capital. Terrible change in the family began in 1937. First, the father of Irma, and then the mother was arrested. Irma was expelled from the Komsomol for alleged anti-Soviet propaganda. And on 10 September 1941, all five sisters were arrested. First women's prison and then a camp in Siberia. All the horrors experienced in prison, the young artist was reflected in their drawings. First sketch had a piece of charcoal on scraps of paper. Then the head of the institution gave Irma paint. It is the camp gave the girl's first love. Was born there and long-awaited daughter Faith.

- She died for several times. In the literal sense of the word. And I was hope for a future life. She was hoping her kids can be, - tells the daughter of the artist Vera Lunkov.

Here it is - a toy made with your own hands. Tiny bear made of bread. The year 1945. Amnesty in honor of the Victory. "Enemies of the people" had to wait another couple of years before they were determined to free settlement. But the memory of the times of repression remained. Real freedom and permission to travel to Irkutsk received only after Stalin's death. And Vera S. Lunkov remembered his mother's stories. She was especially struck by the scene of the first interrogation:

The investigator, when questioned, he ate cherries. And spit the bones in her face. Don't know, maybe I'm too sensitive, but I think it is an insult...

Irma yulievna taught in art school, at the school. Often on expeditions with her husband-a geologist. And always took brushes, sketchbook. Source of inspiration - Sayan, Baikal and, of course, the people who surround the artist. And those camp, the work of Irma yulievna treasured until his death. And his own self-portrait, and a portrait of a newborn daughter, and the terrible figure, which people died of starvation, be killed with a wooden hammer again. Just in case.