Stetsyura Vasyl M.
I was born on September 6, 1925 in the village of foulbrood (now the village is Village Council Morynskoyi Zvenigorod district, Cherkasy region, and in 1959 relates to Olshanskaya Kyiv region). In 1931 the whole family moved to the Donbass.
His father was a miner at the mine number 38 Kurahovka. I went in 1932 to the first class, then in 1941 changed to 7 schools, moving from one to another residence.
In 1940, older brother John was drafted into the army, and 1941, I graduated from high school 9. In the month of January 1942, when the Donbass was occupied by German troops and began a hunger strike, we as a family: father, mother, younger brother and younger sister have decided to go to our home village foulbrood foot, snow, sled pulling with a smaller sister which was 6 years old. We went a month, from February 24 to March 24, 1942. On the way requested food, lodging and more.
Came to his native village, his house was, there was no food, but people contributed what they could to our family. And in late April, I was summoned to the village board with these guys, as I drove in the district center Vilshany on medical board, after which drove Settlement (there was a railway station), drove in wagons, shut them and was taken to Germany. Was taken to Brandenburg, in clearing the camp, where selected us, 25 people were taken by train and further west - the land of Oldenburg, area Yeyfer, which was near a military port Vilhelmshafen. There were plants and military camp working Poles, Russians, Ukrainian, peoples of the Balkans, in the French village of Sand. We put in stables ortsbaure-Hitler Edward Jansen.
We were in the stables, where we slept roll away instead of delivered straw bed. Come fall, holodalo, straw peretyralas. We had to invent something to improve their living conditions, especially at night, because it was near the northern German sea, the weather is damp, were often rains, we had no place obsushytys and we decided to write a letter rayshfyureru eastern workers Zaukelyu about our living conditions . But it was not a week, we sent a letter on the night come SS men, otsepyly our camp, drove us all with stables, lined, and the main SS-man Edward Ensen said: "We do not, if we shoot all of you here and your letter here with us. Live where you settled, and now off to work! "Then drove to the house Bauer, where we were, driving rubber batons. However, at the former smithy pobilyly lime, made two-storeyed wooden bed, and commanded us to stuff mattresses and pillows with straw, to Bauer in his one blanket. Camp in 21 hours locked in the morning, at 4 h. 30 minutes and we were raised to work. So we worked to May 20, 1945 It was a working camp of agricultural workers. May 20, 1945 brought us all into collective camp of Farrell, where we have collected about 15,000 people from the cities of Wilhelmshaven, Sand and navkolishnih towns and villages. Farrell - a city which was previously part of the air were barracks, restored building. There was a big club, we found a former employee of the Kharkov Theatre, organized a theater group and we put two performances: "Courtship in Honcharivka" and "Nazar Stodolya." The text shows know one guy on the memory of Odessa, his name does not remember, he retold us the memory of "The Three Musketeers."
Then we have cars moved across the river Elbe in the zone of Soviet occupation troops Neushtrelits city where I sent a reserve regiment as a private soldier. Due to the fact that I knew something better German language, the company commander took me orderly. Then I was transferred to the military part of Abersvalde, then in Berlin, Shonefelde Airport, where our military unit dismantled aircraft building workshops and directed to our home.
In December 1946 our military unit sent to the city of Ulyanovsk, then the city Kamyanka and I lived in a military camp, where my father served in 1918. Then I was transferred to the city of Penza, where our mouth was sent to the nearest farm for mowing barley. I worked well and for me this award-vacation home, but my mother, younger sister and brother were smaller in Dushanbe, and the elder brother was deputy security at the station Naw-Shahar, near the town of Termez on the Afghan border, which took the whole family after War elder brother John. Incidentally, his father died in April 1945 in Budapest, the brother died in Leninabad in 1947. Traveled there to leave Dushanbe and Naw-Shahar, returned to military unit. How Excellent military and political training, I photographed and put the photo in the military newspaper Volga Military District. In March 1948 I was sent to the stock. But when they asked me where to draw ticket, I sat and doubted whether in Central Asia, or the Ukraine? I still decided to go to Ukraine in his native village, although there are only uncles and aunts.
