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I got to Germany in summer 1942
at harvest time and stayed until the end of war 1945. First we
were brought to a farm, where we had to help in the harvest.
In autumn they sent us to a factory, the Bücker Company in
Rangsdorf. When Rangsdorf was conquered, I came to Berlin.
I worked at the Bücker factory. I had strained the wings on
the airfield. Our living conditions were bad. We always had to
march in a crew. We got 50 gram margarine, 100 gram sugar and
bread for one weak. There was also cooked food: a few potatoes.
When we were allowed to go out at Sunday, we had to come back
till 12 o’clock. If anybody was late, he was punished. When I
was late, I and Raja Tschabar were poured over with cold water.
This way life was. Outside the camp we always had to wear the
sign „East” on our breast.
I remember that we walked to the lake to swim, too. One day a
boy drowned there, Timosch. I was on the moving burial, too.
Hans Vogeler (Boris Kostinski) made the speech.
There were also French hard labourers in the factory. They
listened to the radio and told us about the situation on the
front.
Among the German workers there were quite good Germans. When I
came at work, often somebody gave me a sandwich. But there
were also people, who didn’t understand us. When we went out
on Sunday, we asked the German in Rangsdorf for any work for
us. Keeping the farm clean, ironing and other things. For that
we got bread.
After the liberation 1945 I went home. But I had no documents.
I went to the military commissariat. One gave me a passport
for three month. And one gave me the hardest work in a factory.
In this factory there was no crane. I had to drag the metal
myself. They treated me like an enemy.
Even 1945 I married a military man. First we had no home. Just
when I was allowed to go back to Drushkowka, the situation
changed. At first we rented a flat from my aunt. Then we
purchased a piece of land. But now I need nothing else. |
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