Lisovets Timofey Andreevich

The author, who was born in 1924 in the ancient village of Berezan in Ukraine, talks about his life and the lives of his relatives before his deportation to Germany: about the murder of his grandfather by the Germans in 1918 because he did not give wheat to their horses, about the ordeals of parents during collectivization, about the efforts of a father and mother to save their children from starvation, about how, as a teenager, he grazed the personal cattle of fellow villagers, how he drove cattle at the beginning of the war to the rear, how trenches were dug in the Chernihiv region, about the retreat of Soviet troops and civilians through the Berezan, about the arrival of the Germans in the village, about 20 local residents who went to serve as policemen, about how these people behaved differently towards their fellow villagers (Okhrimenko Tikhon, the head of police, defended fellow villagers more than once), about the execution of soldiers hiding from the Germans in this village, about the murder of a neighbor’s father, who reproached him for looting (a lot of corpses remained along the road during the retreat), about what work the author had to do under the Germans, about various episodes that happened to him at that time and almost cost him his life.
Order of the German command on the mobilization of residents in 1924-1925. birth to work in Germany, under which the author and several of his fellow villagers of the same age fell.
Following the train to Przemysl. Determination of the commission, whom to send to work where.
Life at Bauer Braun in the area of ​​Kassel. A detailed description of the different types of work that the author performed. Conflict with the German clerk, as a result
which the arrest of the author and 4 other Russian workers. Prison in Marburg. The execution of everyone except the author, who, as the main instigator, was subjected to severe beatings and torture for almost 5 months. Release due to the request of the owner, who greatly appreciated the author as a worker.
Bombing by the Americans of Kassel. Work on dismantling the rubble and cleaning up the corpses. Recruitment to the army of Vlasov. Refusal of 8 people, including the author. Digging trenches near Koblenz. The ongoing bombing of the Americans. Failed boat escape. Sending workers by train from the shelled city. Composition bombing. Stage during which the author fled. Meeting with the same as him, a fugitive in the forest. Life for 3 days in the home of a friendly German woman.
Liberation by the Americans. Their intention is to send the author and his friend to a camp for displaced persons. Please stay in the American camp. Work in the kitchen until the end of the war. The commandant's office in the city of Halle, then a check in the city of Wernitz, conscription into the army, military service.
Return home in 1947. Correspondence after the war with the wife of Heinrich Braun. Information about some events in the fate of the former German owners.
After the memoirs, briefly about his later life: demobilization in 1947, work as a groom, an apprentice locksmith, a stenciler and accountant in a transport brigade, and a foreman on a collective farm. In 1969 he moved to Leningrad, married, worked as a carpenter.

The annotation was compiled by Zhidkova T.G.

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