1926: Born in the village Balakleja, Ukraine, USSR
1933: Sister dies during the famine
1942: Deportation to Berlin, housed in a so-called cemetery camp
Forced labour at various cemeteries in Berlin
Contact with communists in Berlin
January 1, 1944: Started keeping a diary
November 1944: Interrogation by the Gestapo
1945: Integration into the Red Army
Interrogation at a “Filtrierlager” in Silesia
Returned to parent’s house
After 1945: Farmer in Kharkiv, life in poverty, moved to Moscow, subsequent return to home town

Wasyl Kudrenko