Pankeev Nicholas Prokofevych
Born 26 June 1926 year in SB-Znamenka Kamenetsko-Dneprovskoho District Zaporizhia region. By the beginning of the war He studied at school. He graduated from the seven classes and dreamed bыt good musician, but fate rasporyadylas otherwise. In 1941 g nachalas War. When you engage our territory nemetskymy troops worked in kolhoze polevodcheskoy in a working team. 21 August 1943 Manuscript me along with the second brought in h.Nykopol countrymen, sunk in the commodity train and otpravyly to work in Germaniya. Ehal we poluholodnыe. Brought us in Poland, Mr. Peremыshl, where pomыly in dome, pokormyly burning any thing and we were held medical osmotr. In my memory detskuyu throughout life vrezalas song, kotoruyu translyrovaly on radio at loading our echelons:
"I shall die in a foreign land zaroyut,
Zaplachet mamenka my
Wife naydet a second
A mother sыnochka - Never "
We arrived in Germaniya in h.Lertы, where we pomestyly internee in Camp. Me and fellow moym vыdaly green icons for the agricultural work. Then we have sunk in vahonы and brought in Hanover Arbaletzam. That was us from the other villages are 10 people. They kept coming and took nemetskye zhenschynы moyh comrades of all, I ostalsya one. Syzhu and crying. To me podoshel man 30 years and sprashyvaet: "Why òû plachesh?" - And uspokoyl me, obъyasnyv that the zakazaly me, and for mnoy pryedut.
Soon on mnoy pryshel predstavytelnыy man and said traces behind it. His name on Henry has been Holdeman. In the city brought on me in pyvnoy bar, bought me a mug of beer Black, and he rolled prysel svoym comrades and about something smeyas showed to me. I have not yet beer Never dust, was a from the villages are - poor, and me That was very Gorky, tears flowed from the same eye. By train with him we arrived in the village Koptylvayde, where nahodylos ego hozyajstvo and house number 3. Men poznakomyly s second employee: Poles, Yugoslavs, and nemka. I worked as in do this, owner of the Village EARLY morning to evening. Hozyajstvo That was a lot. Vыraschyvaly potatoes, wheat, rye, and others sveklu selhozproduktы. In addition, That was a lot cows, pigs and razlychnoy ptytsы. Works That was very lot and dinner we rolled very ustavaly. Fed us at the table with the owner of the well. Only thanks to our GOOD owner of the I vыzhyl, despite yznurytelnыy work.
4 April 1945 year amerykanskye troops occupied village Koptylvayde. Amerykantsы pomestyly me in the camp under Magdeburg. Camp gave our sweat Soviet troops. Then sovetskye troops otpravyly us Peszko in Belarus, Grodno g. Sweat was transferred in Chelyabinsk, where I worked as valtsovschykom on metallurgic kombynate to 12 hours a day and meals áûëî vesma skudnoe. In 1946 in one year from the nochnыh shifts I was a heavy travmyrovan, and me with plant otpustyly DOMO. In 1947 February 8 g I arrived to clean up your native village.
That was very healthy podorvano, but live hotelos. In the fall of 1947 g called me in the Army and sent to the factory-Zavodskiy School of specialty Welder nahrevatelnыh furnaces, where I prorabotal 25 years. Nыne on the pension. Alone. I live in h.Nykopole. The pension have enough to nyschenskoe existence.
