Voloshkin Vladimir T.
Voloshkin Vladimir T.
Born January 17, 1938 in the family of a serviceman in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. In 1940 his father was transferred to serve in the air part in Vilnius (Lithuania). When the war began, his father was on the training field at the airport. Trying to evacuate the rear failed: both echelons of military families were broken aircraft, intercepted a German landing, the men returned to "the winter apartment." A few days later the Germans executed the inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto, which rozmischalos two 3-4-storey buildings in Vilnius, and placed them there detained family members of military personnel. Among them was Voloshkina and Mary and son Volodya, who at that time and yet under 4 years. This "Russian ghetto" (so called this camp the locals), they were in September 1943, while the Germans disbanded the camp and sent to prison rates of people in different places within five cruise columns. Archival documents of German Security Police and SD derived from the Lithuanian National Archives, show that the family was sent to Voloshkinyh of Boosen (Germany), but they, along with a group of other former prisoners, "Russian ghetto", were in camp French St. Ludwig (now St. Louis, the site of former concentration camp built Orthodox church). Archives of St. Louis confirmed stay in this camp with other prisoners Voloshkinyh family. Known approximate date (September 1944) of their removal from St. Louis, but did not specify where the Germans had taken them. And they found themselves in a large camp of Nuremberg in Germany, where he was liberated by the forces of allies.
At the end of August 1945 they returned in the Belgorod region. (Place of birth parents Voloshkina VT). But there he learned the fate of his father - Voloshkina Trophimus Timofeevich that the war was on the front, in late 1944, he was komisovanyy from the army as a disabled World War II and worked in the Volyn region. At the end of 1945 there moved and Vladimir with his mother. He went to school and graduated in 1955 with a medal and entered the Faculty of mechanization in the Kharkov Institute of Mechanization of Agriculture. While studying at the institute three seasons (1956, 1958, 1959) worked on the harvesting of virgin lands and in 1958 received his first career award - the "Medal for osvoenye tselynnыh land." After graduation he worked as a mechanic farm office in Donetsk region, engineer RTS in Volhynia, and in 1965 was called up for military service, which gave 26 years. He was discharged for sickness in the rank of colonel in 1991, then went to work as an engineer in the Department of Radiology of the Volyn Regional Department of Agriculture, where retired after reaching retirement age in 1998.
Voloshkin Vladimir T.
In 1991, actively involved in work on the movement of former minor prisoners of Nazi concentration camps. First was the Deputy Head of Department of the Union, and in 1994 - its permanent chairman. In 1996 he was elected to office USKMV, and since 2000 he is also Chairman USVZHN.
Voloshkin VT Awarded "Merit" third degree and 15 medals.
Memory of the Child
The book V. Litvinov, "Brown Necklace" is a section called "Oh lasesofah." That's what they said:
"Now we know for sure: at the beginning of the war the vast majority of families of Soviet officers from western and central regions of Lithuania (80 percent) or died, or fell into German captivity and became prisoners of special camps - lasesofiv, that camps for families personnel. Hidden from human eyes underwater part of iceberg (lasesofa) contained a lot of mysterious and terrible.
These camps have emerged in the early days of the war, immediately after the transition German border, appeared before all other places of detention of Soviet citizens. It is possible that officers of the Wehrmacht (not to mention the officers of the Gestapo and gendarmerie) had specific instructions under which operated ...
Today known as lasesofiv-"pioneers" who emerged in the occupied Soviet territory. These were camps for families of Soviet officers in Lithuanian cities Dymytrovas and Calvary. But the biggest lasosofom was Subochskyy camp. Hence, his role of "leader" among the like. In Suboch rivnyalys, it followed (of course - the fascists in the methods of work). Among the local people called it "Russian ghetto."
Fate was such that this spetstabir and was my first of three, where I had to "live" for long years of war. In 1941 my father - Voloshkin Trofim T. served in an aircraft of the Red Army, whose headquarters was located in Vilnius. We lived in the so-called "DOSah" (houses of officers). Shortly before the war aviachastyna was removed from the main base for the so-called "Field airport," where he and my father. We stayed with my mother in Vilnius. I was at that time three and a half years. Of course, I can not make a single logical description of all events of the time, but some episodes remain in memory forever.
The beginning of the war: knock on the door. Mom discovers excitedly about saying something with some military returns and begins to make things in a hurry. Then, hugging, kissing me and says, "War, and quickly going to run the station." Ever crashed in memory: in terminal run old people, women, holding hands or the hands of small children, and to shoot them from the windows and attics. Of course, not all lucky enough to run up to the station. At station hruzymos in cars and the train gets under way with refugees. After a certain period of time - two trains, burning of rail. As I learned later, we tried to evacuate to the rear via Belarus, but at the station Voronov, that under the city of Lida, trains were defeated and captured German aircraft landing. Everyone who could, tried to hide in the high zhytah that grew along the railroad. At dawn they saw that the road moving tanks, covered, we thought the red sheets. All of joy rushed to them, but were stopped by machine-gun bursts of tanks. Since I first saw the Nazi flag - red with a black swastika in a white circle. The Germans gathered all that remained alive, and ordered to return to winter quarters that as it may, warning: in violation of the order - shooting on location.
Some days we walk, but he had money - hire cart to get to Vilnius. Located in his old apartment. Then came the German military, gathered in a convoy and drove in two fenced with barbed wire-rise buildings on the street Subochaus. As I later learned, first there was the Jewish ghetto. After shooting the first week of the war the Germans put the Jews back Family Red Army officers. Ever since I remember one couplet camp song to the tune of a then popular song "Raskynulos sea well":
"On the street Suboch two houses stand
Two Jewish home bыly.
Now there sovetskye people sitting -
Evreev zarыly the grave ... "
In "Russian ghetto" we inherited a small apartment in the basement, which houses a 2 family: I am a mom and family Fisun, which consisted of mother and three daughters. For this family, fate brought us to the war.
What happened in the camp, I do not know, but I remember that very hungry, bite big black ovcharky, from which should remain for life, and how sometimes at night "voyuyu" and yet, and that at the beginning of stay with the police protection was, but after a while in the camp began to appear frequently in military black form. They were taken in cars women, many of them in the camp have been returned. As I learned from talking to each other were older boys and adults in the camp was exposed female clandestine subversive organization. After this camp guard was significantly enhanced.
That was until September 1943 when they put us in wagons and brought under the protection of nowhere. So we found ourselves in a small spetskontstabori in the French town of St. Ludwig (as I now know - is the German name of the French city of St.-Louis, currently on the site of the former concentration camp built Orthodox church). Since being in this camp crashed in memory of some residents trying to pass along the camp fence, in protyanuti thin ruchenyata thin children quietly put either apricot or apple whip guard, whom he mercilessly drives away children from the fence, as in Vilnius constant hunger. Due to the fact that the mother had to work in factories for 12 hours in the night shift, and the day they had to gain strength for the next change, leadership camp invented "special" diet of children who have not been able to work, one glass of milk and pivkusochka erzatshliba day of placement in a separate room from adults and ban during certain hours out of it. I will never forget when my mother managed to bring the camp paint cock that gave to me Frenchwoman Mary, who worked at the factory together with his mother. For me it was the only and very expensive toy. And do not forget my mother and Aunt Ola Fisun (about this family I mentioned) did not return to work, and the women who worked in one shift with them, only obnimaly me and assured that his mother would soon return. Indeed, a day or two they returned, beaten and sad. In the camp they brought gendarmes. Later my mother told me that they tried to keep up with the columns in the hope to get something with food. Their attempt failed, but after a while their absence was noticed, and they caught feldzhandarmamy and taken to jail where they were "detained" for a while and then brought to the camp.
In the camp of St. Ludwig we stayed until about September 1944, and then find themselves in a large camp with prisoners on the outskirts of the famous Nuremberg. Placed us in a three-story barracks with naramy. Catering - known to many prisoners from Nazi wash potatoes or turnips ochystok, tea with carrots and bread with Trinh to two times a day. At the time, allied aircraft have already started massive bombing of German industrial cities. Because debris in sufficient and adults constantly used for clearing the city. The children were left unattended parents. Was while guarding the perimeter surrounded by barbed wire from the tower camp can not say, but the main gate guarded by two SS-man, just know it. Especially remembered a couple - senior, under 60 years old and younger - years 40. They remember that almost every day repeating the same "process": when the change took place of, the senior must have in his pocket several tsukerochok. Left unattended parents, children with curiosity came closer to the gate. Senior took out candy and threw them into the dust at the gate. Each of the children wanted to taste very sweet, and they, like sparrows, wildly for sweets and koposhylysya in the dirt. At that time the SS-man pidbihav younger children and tried to hit yaknaybolyuchishe kick someone with them. Then both laughed loudly. From the period of stay in Nuremberg camp remember the terrible bombing, including the camp, which, as I wrote was on the very outskirts of the city. At the end of the war fence was already in many places so broken that during the bombing of the majority of prisoners escaped in the field to not get hit by bombs. Then there was the release of Allied troops and return home in August 1945. And to me at that time until 7 ½ years.
V. Litvinov had cited in my book, "Brown Necklace" notes that the issue of so-called spetskontstaboriv for families of Soviet officers long silenced, and few of them knew. I think about them and now little known.
So why in the documents of the Security Police SD, preserved in the State Archives of Lithuania in Vilnius, says that me mother sent as part of the marching column (and there are the "Russian ghetto" was sent to five) in Boosen ( Germany), and we found ourselves in France? Why in the document that confirms my mom to stay in the camp of St. Louis, received by more than six years after a request by an international search engine in Bad Arolzeni through the French Embassy from the archives of Saint-Louis, the Germans, with all their punctuality , said when and where profit, not mentioned where we were sent, what searches and using Arolzena, and through other personal archives in Germany, including all archives Nuremberg (and already have nine responses only from Nuremberg) show no positive result? The impression is that the Nazis wanted to hide traces of their crimes against civilians among the families of servicemen. This means that not all dots are placed over the "i".
