Vera Yegorvwna Vosmiteleva was born in the provincial town of Blagoveshchenka, Irbei District on the 13 March 1936; she was the sixth child of the family.
When she was 2 years old, her father Yegor Dmitrievich Chvarkov and another three inhabitants from Blagoveshchenka were arrested and taken to Irbeiskje; when leaving their home they said they would have returned by the evening. Nobody ever saw them again. Some time later the Chvarkov family learned that their husband and father was long since dead; he had been shot.
As from 1938 Olga Danilovnawas a single mother. Vera Yegorovna began to work on a kolkhoz farm at the age of 10; at first she was to weed pest plants from a cornfield. Later-on, she was a simple worker and, as a sideline job, technician for the agricultural club; at the age of 19 she found a job as a pig keeper.
When she was 21 she got married to Ivan Vosmitelev from the village of Posadskoe. She has just a four years’ education, for there was no possibility to attend school any longer. As of 1966 until 1990 she was working for the kolkhoz farm as a milkmai. She gave birth to six children.
Vera Yegorovna Vosmiteleva’s brothers and sisters became victims of political repression, as well.
I would like to write about doom of my grandfather’s doom .
My grandfather, Vladimir Ivanovich Ibe, was born in Marxstadt, Saratow Region, on the 18 October 1938. Father: Ivan Andreevich Ibe, Mother: Maria Aleksandrova Ibe.
When the war broke out they were deported to Siberia. At that time the parents were 27 years old, he himself was 4; there was another brother called Ivan, yet, and a sister named Vera. In 1941 the were displaced to Siberia, to the Irbei District, to the village of Chervyanka. Another brother was born in this place, but he died soonafter.
They stayed in Chervyanka for four years. In 1945 they removed to the village of Strelka, where they still live today. Some more children were born to the family in this place: brother Sasha, as well as the sisters Masha and Lilia. Another sister died at the age of 2 months. In Strelka they had a very bad life. The father was the sole wage earner; he just received 600 grs of bread per day, which had to be shared among all members of the family. As they suffered from hunger, they would prowl throught the fields looking for edible tubers of the Turk’s-cap lily; they searched the ground for frozen potatoes and went to pick berries during the summer. The mother was busily sewing garments. Once, the father exchanged his suit against a calf; they raised up a cow, and then life became slightly easier – they had a sufficient quantity of milk available.
At the age of 13 Volodia went to procure firewoof for the winter. Later, in 1955, Valentina Nikonovna Kraeva from the village of Stariki came to work in Strelka.
On the 21 November 1958 Vladimir and Valentina got married. One year later, in 1959, their son Valeriy was born. Daughter Svetlana was born in 1962, the third son, Aleksandr in 1974. Father Ivan Andreevitch Ibe died in 1979. In the very same year mather Maria Aleksandrovna left this world, as well. Vladimir worked for a floating company and, as from 1979 he had the job of a tractor driver. Finally, he went on pension. Valya was working for some other household as a cook; later she worked as a milkmaid and took care of the calves, until she went on pension, too.
Vladimir still lives in Strelka and often meets his brother Aleksandr, who lives in the town of Borodino. His sisters Vera, Masha and Lilia also see him every now and then; they live in Kansk. Brother Ivan lives in the Ukraina. Vladimir und Ivan have not seen eachother for more than 19 years; this is why they would very much like to meet eachother some time in the near future. This is what my grandfather’s life looked like..
On the eve of the Day of political repressions I, accompanied by a worker of the social welfare office, met with Sofia Grigorevna Klimova. I asked her to tell us something about her life. It was very difficult for Sofia Grigorevna to recall those times; she was a tot at that time; but nonetheless, she reported, fighting back her tears, that she was born in 1927 and that there were many children in her family. They lived in the village of Nizhnee Istokino.
Early in the 1930s her father was sentenced on §58 and shot soonafter. He left her mother behind with six little children. They had to cope with lots of difficulties – there were more than enough of them, but she somehow managed to find her way and overcome all adversities of live. The children tried to support their mother as best they could. Sofia Grigorevna began to work at the age of 9: she harvested flax and potatoes on the kolkhoz farm and, at large, did all kinds of physical labour she was able to do. She would have like to go to school, ut she did not succeed in attending lessons for more than two years. She had neither clothes nor footwear to go to school, and, apart from this, she had to work. There was no time left to attend school. She was working as a milkmaid for 20 years – at that time cows still had to be milked by hand, and they had to push ahead in order to finish the milking of all cows by the end of the day.
She and her husband brought up four children. Meanwhile, Sofia Grigorevna has nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Anastasia Yegorovna Melnikova was born in 1922 in the village of Blagoveshchenka. She was the first child in the family; she went to school for two years only.
In the spring of 1938 her father was arrested at home and deported to some unknown place; later the family learned that he had been shot. 16 year-old Anastasia had no chance to calmly say good-bye to her father, for she was in her workplace at that time. She had a job as a stablehand, late-on she worked as a pig keeper for the kolkhoz farm, where she stayed until she was 35.
She got married to Ivan Melnikov from the village of Minushka; afterwards she removed to her husband’s village. She raised five children.
I was born in the Saratov Region, in the village of Podlesnoe, on the 27 Oktober 1923. My parents were farmers. I went to school in Marxstadt, where I attended and graduated the 7-year school. Later I studied at the technical school, in order to become a mechanic of agricultural machines. I had just finished the first course when the war broke out. At that time all Germans were resettled; the same lot befell my family, as well. We were deported to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Irbei District, village of Taloe. Due to an ukase passed by the government we were affected by repressions. In 1942 they sent us to Sosnovka to procure timber.
He survived all calamities caused by the war; however, and this is the case
with most of the German, Vladimir Solomonovich recalls those times utterly
reluctantly only.
After the war he came to Middle Asia by assignment – he was to work for some construction project there – the pits had to be rebuilt.
In 1954 he was demobilized and released home to Taloe due to familial circumstances. He found a job on the kolkhoz farm. He worked as a hammersmith first, later as a common blacksmith. Moreover, he jobbed as a stockman for the kolkhoz farm. He removed to the settlement of Irbei, worked for a car repair shop as a blacksmith and, besides, was engaged in various other kinds of labour – just depending to where they would send him, to where labour was demanded. Before he went on pension he worked for some soil improvement enterprise as a blacksmith, too.
At old age, Vladimir Solomonovich is now 83 years old, he moved in with an old woman to Ilino-Posadkoe. Each of them has no company, but they are badly off; in the vicinity there is neither a hospital nor a store; they are forced to walk all the way up to Blagoveshchenka very often.Since they like to read, they subscribed to the newspaper „Krasnoyarsk Labourer“. The interview took place on the 14 April 2007. Vladimir Solomonovich lives in Irbei.
V.A. Koch