Two kozhushka

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This history based on quite real events was told by the resident of the village of Demidovshchina of Kobrin district Nina Nikitichna Bogachuk. Her story-byl about how even on the brink of disaster the people doomed to death thought and cared for live...

Nina Voytik (it is her maiden name) in the village Osmolovichi of Antopolsky district was born. A large family in which there were five children it is small it is small less, lived in poverty, huddled in an old, close hut. To build the new house, her father Nikita Lvovich had to save up money long. And here, at last, in Antopole employed two master builders Moysh and Gershko. Those quickly and qualitatively put a felling, covered it, but completely did not manage to finish construction because war burst.

In Antopole where there lived many Jews, fascists suited a ghetto. Periodically invaders visited all Jewish houses and collected a tribute - gold, jewelry, sound things, clothes... So people some more weeks or months of life forced to buy to themselves, to pay off from death. When there was already nothing to take from them, fascists or politsa took away them and sent for execution.

The house Voytikov stood at Grushevsky of the wood, around it there were dense thickets, and slightly at some distance - a bog. Nina well remembers how once the exhausted, being on the last legs person jumped out of a bush directly to their house. It was Moysha, one of the builders working for them before war. On it there was a sound new casing.

Nina heard each word from his conversation with the father. The unexpected guest told: "Mikita, let's me be covered with something, and kozhushok I to you will leave this. Not on the cards to me to carry it, one of these days all of us will be shot. To pay off there is nothing, all took away..."

- The father gave to Moyshe an old homespun jacket, - remembers Ning Nikitichn. - We good had no clothes, money for construction of the house went. The father offered Moyshe: a pier, let me hide you, do not come back more to Antopol. The father already guerrilla coherent was by then and could transport him to group. Only Moysha flatly refused, answered: "Where my family – there and I! Where I without them?!"

The Kozhushok left, and itself back in Antopol ran. The father began to cry even, looking to him following. There was it in the spring the 1942nd... Strong one more history of occupational time which main person involved also was kozhushok was engraved in Nina Nikitichna's memory.

Nina Voytik's mother Stepanida since the childhood was on friendly terms with Yanta and Golda - daughters antopolsky korchmarya Shloma. Nina too often was in their house together with mother, sometimes she was sent something to borrow: money or goods from its shop. Shloma always willingly helped out them, knowing as he hard is to a large family.

As well as all antopolsky Jews, Shloma and his relatives during occupation got to a ghetto beyond which territory to them it was strictly forbidden to go. But once to Voytikam the acquaintance from Antopol came and told that Golda very much asked Nina to come to her tomorrow. "Let will put on himself something old", - the messenger added. But so it happened that for the next day Nina could not go to Antopol, it got there only every other day. Went on foot, having put on itself old worn kozhushok which they with mother had one for two....

Nina by miracle managed to pass by security guards unnoticed to Shloma's house. And there great grief... Took away and took away the little daughter of Golda Roza, the beauty and the laugher, the curly little girl with a smile of an angel. Sobbing, Gelda told it: "Oh, Nina, Ning what you did not come yesterday? I called you to give the kozhushok, remember, that new, black with an embroidery that so it was pleasant to you. And in exchange I your old would hand over to Germans. All the same already all took away from us, and the Rosette there is nothing was to redeem. But yesterday these monsters came and took away my casing, and so though memory from me to you would remain. All of us will be taken away to death soon..."

− I Run back in Osmolovichi and I pay, so I feel sorry for these people, - continues Ning Nikitichn's story. - And Shloma died of a grief on the same day, could not worry that took away his little granddaughter. These monsters at first killed the Jewish children and youth, and then already all others... At me and now heart is covered with blood when I remember how the people doomed to death thought until the last minute of those who else had chance to survive. Knew how difficult is to us, and the last that they had, sought to give, facilitate our existence. Just imagine, Moysha, risking life, got out of a ghetto, came running for ten kilometers only to give to the father the casing which then for a long time to it served. And the young woman who lost the only child was still able to remember and care for me, the daughter of the girlfriend. As she regretted that I did not come then in time and kozhushok fascists took away! Here, in Demidovshchina where I attain the age, I often was also before war. In the empty log hut the youth suited club, and to Osmolovichi the Jewish guys often came from Demidovshchina, invited us, girls, to dances. There were they tall, stately, beautiful... All of us together lived - Belarusians, Poles, Jews, all knew each other, were on friendly terms. And then once I heard that all Jews from Demidovshchina were driven in Antopol on execution. Nobody escaped... Still I remember names, faces of many with whom she was familiar, and are always on the mind. And, speak, the person is living until though someone remembers him...

Alla Kovalyov

Kovalyova, A. Dva Kozhushka / Alla Kovalyova//Dawn. – 2006. – January 26. – Page 3. Memories of the inhabitant of Demidovshchina of destruction of the Jewish population in the territory of Kobrin district.



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