Since 1830 up to the beginning of 1900, an Italian migratory flux, from Puglia, Italy, involve Kerch, Crimea. This Italians were mainly agriculturists, seaman and expert in shipyards attracted by the mirage of better future. During the Stalinist Purge many of them were accused to be Italian spy and therefore arrested, tortured and shot dead. On the 28th of January 1942 to this Italians families were given 2 hours and the possibility to take maximum 8 kg of their belongings before to be deported to Kazakhstan. Many people died before reaching the destination because of hunger, cold and different hardships. Today in Kerch there are almost 350 people (survivors of the deportation) that are claiming to be recognised in the status of deported minority (up to now denied by the Ukraine Authorities) and Italian descendants. In a plaque in front of Kerch train station, in memory of the minorities deported and the people who died in the tragedy, the Italian minority is the only one not mentioned.