Categories: Confessional and international relations, Eugenia Begetskaya

And where did you return later? To Orkavichy?

Yes, I returned to my father. My brother came back without his leg. He returned from the army front. After Auschwitz had been liberated, they were taken to the army front. He had three kilometers to reach Berlin when he lost his leg. His foot was shot off only, but then he got an infection. They were taken and taken away so that the war would come to its end, they didn’t manage to take those servicemen who were wounded. So they severed his leg right at his hip. So he was on his back very long time, more than... about one year, he stayed at the hospital in Germany until his leg had been healed. They severed his leg for the first, then second and third time, and finally they made him an artificial leg. There was an old German who had five children, he made prostheses. So he said that, “I gave him, I did not eat up my food ration that I was given, told my brother. So he said: “I prepared my food ration in the evening when he came to me to take measure of my leg or to fit on, so I, he said, gave everything to his children and he started to weep: “You have good people, he said”. He made him such a good artificial leg so that when he was dying they put this prosthesis on: his knee was flexible, and his foot was like cotton. It was like a true leg, nobody could misrecognize, when … he got off his clothes, and the color was natural, and everything looked like his true leg. That was a good prosthesis. He used it all the time when he was walking. He walked on crutches very seldom, he used the prosthesis.

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Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Ксения Адасик, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы