Elvira Ilyakhina (Stambrovskaya) and her sister Nadezhda

Former child prisoners of Salaspils: Nadezhda and Elvira Stambrovskaya were taken to Salaspils from Byelorussia together with their mother and grandmother. The Nazis had burnt their village and all the residents had been dispatched to Latvia. Members of the Stambrovsky family had become separated but managed to survive. After independence was restored to Latvia, Elvira Ilyakhina (nee Stambrovskaya) (1932 – 2008) became head of the Society for Juvenile Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps.