Pavlishenko Elena
From the word Holocaust heart numb. On the tragedy of the Jews during the Nazi occupation, Jewish ghetto says a lot - on my desk "Black Book", published in 1991
I want to talk about so-called "Russian ghetto" - concentration camps for the families of Red Army officers created by the Nazis during the war in Lithuania. I was a prisoner of the camp just as the daughter of the Soviet officer, engineer Engineer troops.
In 1940-1941 he was a lot of officers from the Soviet Union received the appointment in Lithuania. I will not touch politics, who and what is needed. We children were held hostage by politicians. Even now in Poland under Nazi poured blood boots, and red commanders, who were traveling in Lithuanian garrisons had to take with them and family and household goods. Graduates of military schools just got married. And then - the war. That's born in many young officers' wives have children in prison camps. A young parents first took the blow of the enemy, many of them died on the Lithuanian land in the early hours of the war.
I was born February 15, 1939 in the village Berezivka Polotsk district of Vitebsk region Byelorusi (now a settlement in the Polotsk region is not). Villagers Berezivka moved to the village azines).
Father John S. Pavlishenko was sent to Lithuania in Kaunas was a part of a special commission, which took military buildings, barracks of the Lithuanian Army. The family in Kaunas (woman - Anna Pavlishenko Yakivna, older sister born in 1933).
On the eve of the war in Kaunas grandfather came to us (by name). Pavlov A. Simon. The beginning of the war found him in Kaunas. My father, like all commanders Kaunas garrison were in camps under Kazlu-Ore. His father at that time was head of engineering services § 142 pp.
Break in our Kaunas could not, on the first day were perkryti, blocked railroad and all the way. Families commanders were forced to evacuate themselves.
My mother, Anna Pavlishenko could not be evacuated from Kaunas, because all the roads, railways were blocked, blocked on the first day of war. Mother shot explosive bullet. I was at that moment in her hands, stood next to 72-year old grandfather, who before the war disaster in Kaunas hour brings to his son and daughter in law. The heart of old foreshadowed that have two small girls grandchildren take on Ukraine. No sooner ... own hands buried daughter.
A few days later all members of officers' families were herded to the outskirts of Kaunas in the Jewish ghetto. In the so-called small ghettos Jews were shot, and drove back the Soviet officers wives with children.
In the house where we lived on the street. Shapchay (Kaunas district) we are not allowed, did not give us our stuff.
After wandering around the city, begging for the Orthodox Church we are all family in Kaunas ghetto Viliyampoli - suburb of Kaunas, where historically Jews have always settled near Fort IX.
So it has happened: on one side of the street ghetto - Jews, on the other - commander's family. All joined a barbed wire, a misfortune. They shared a woman with a miserable Jewish children last crumb. A small camp popularly called the "Russian ghetto." As long as you can, Lithuanians brought to the camp some of the products, because the famine, disease and pidkoshuvaly old and small. For me this year stay in the camp was the cause of disability in childhood.
Officers' wives have established contact with underground Kaunas. Helped prisoners escape from our camps in the forest. Activists Nazis shot that others fear. Then, in summer 1942, the Nazis decided to isolate officers from the world of the family. Drive away in their swamps under Kala-ore to mined peat for the Germans. And small it was quite unnecessary fascists. We, who remained without mothers threatened physical destruction. Learning of this, the Orthodox community has decided to save orphans.
So I ended up in the summer of 1942, the family of the former colonel of the Lithuanian Army Jurgis Smorihy - already an elderly man. I was secretly baptized in the church near the station. Only now realize that exploit humanity were committed Lithuanians. Only huge credibility Jurgis (George) Smorihy in Kaunas redeem him from execution by saving a child from a family of red commander - as he took me zavshyvlenu, the plague, for slender children's hands and not let all the long war.
On his father received the news that was lost. And he is seriously injured, burned, received in a hospital news of the death of the family. Only after the war, in 1946 went to find our graves, and found me - a daughter. which did not recognize him ...
In 1989 I was one of the organizers of the meeting in Lithuania of the former children of prisoners, whose childhood was in concentration camps. And all who came, with great appreciation the simple mention of Lithuanian women who delivered them from certain death. For each of these women not only tore a piece of bread from their children, sometimes with the whole family doomed himself to be shot.
And yet - rescuing. Delivered in the most terrible time when fascist darkness clutched the heart of horror.
We, children of Lithuanian camps, there was very little. Senior of the mothers consumed Nazi Germany, where they waited Majdanek, Auschwitz. Few came back from there ... It is hard to remember all this. But we must.
... In 1946 my father brought me to the covert-Vodice. I entered first grade in a Russian school, but soon was transferred to a class of school № 104.
A pivsyritstvo (father was constantly in komandyrovkah) starving, was neglected. Often ill.
After seven years of the village came to peduchylyscha (hospital), was the Komsomol organizer of the course. Had to work at night for the construction of missile bases, and a day - to learn.
After peduchylyscha in Komsomolsk ticket went to build a "Kazakhstan Magnitogorsk," because no graduate peduchylyscha otrmyav not hired.
Obmorozyla feet on the concrete site, came to work in primary school, but often ill. Therefore asked to work as a teacher in the Rivne region. Came to a village where all adult men were sent to Magadan, were not allowed to build houses. Fleas, lice, scabies, gross illiteracy adult shots, even sometimes at night, children have never seen a Christmas tree.
Built there in primary school, club, planted a garden. Leave work no teacher was right.
So I entered in Rivne Pedagogical Institute at the hospital. Offered a job in the editorial.
After the first medical examination came to the hospital and after a complex operation has moved to distance learning.
As systematically engaged in research work on benderivschynu, it was the winner of literary awards. One day I realized that I could also cement "car accident" (which I refused to cooperate with anyone in the team had a lot of those who returned from exile. Because time is clear that we must change jobs because "easterners" not very began to suffer.
Together with her husband moved to his home.
Suddenly lose vision. Underwent two complex operations eyes. Left alone. She got an apartment.
Participant in the first meeting in Kiev in June 1988.
In retirement she went on disability. When in 1973 wanted to know the details: who, what shot his mother then appealed to the Ministry of Defence of the USSR.
Within two years the Lithuanian viyskomaty conducted a thorough search, which I was sadly underestimated, not thanked these people.
Got some documents about the death of the mother.
Daughter Natalie G. G. Smorysh Smorychayte-Badershye at that time was head of the department of inorganic chemistry, the author of many books, including students of Agricultural Academy in Kaunas.
Because it together with his father during the war saved from concentration camp commander red daughter, she received a distinction, as I said modestly. But in 1978 she died of cancer, but I was not informed in time.
It was with his father underground party (in which I am sure some remember. Also, it perfectly, like all of them family owned German and French). I know that they are very comfortable house in the heart of working-class quarter Shanchyay going to those whose names are then heard from among the Lithuanian partisans. There was a German headquarters, across the street, and sent me there to play the daughter of the owners.
Unfortunately, it's lost, not what can not learn more.
In 1991, I brought in the house V. Litvinov, but in those days the house was sold, PG archive Badershye-Smoryhayte was just scattered.
I know that in Soviet times in Lithuania about our family something written. But for the future of their children, grandchildren, sister once and abandoned memories, benefits and talk about camp. Their family - were members of the Central Committee of Lithuania (Lithuanian Central Committee apparatus), very famous people in Lithuania, but suffered heavy losses.
I saved them is that they are very high-level specialists, treated everyone, regardless of affiliation and belonging (during self-Lithuania).
That's why I'm out there it is difficult to search.
