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AdelSommer1646 karma

I am the only survivor of a family of 83 people. I come from the small town of Tluste. My parents were born there under Austria-Hungary. I was born in Poland, and now the same little town is in the Ukraine. When WWII started Stalin and Hitler divided Poland in two and we lived under the Soviet rule until 1941.

For two days I was a Communist. The commissar who came to Tluste said they came to liberate us from the land ones, capitalists, and the bourgeoisie. Life in the Soviet Union is paradise. Everyone is provided for according to his needs and everybody works. Being young and gullible I liked it. Well, it didn't take long to see the paradise fall apart. They threw us out of my home and took away my father's business and moved in and took on maids. The poor people were even worse off. If they had made us share our house with the poor, that I would understand, but they kept everything for themselves.

AdelSommer987 karma

I am a religious person. I made a lot of deals with god that i will keep my faith. one of the main reasons that I will keep my faith and to see that my faith...i believe in the 10 commandments and to spread the teaching of the bible. I am not here to convert other people but I am not going to give up the faith of 4000 year because of Hamens and Hitlers and ant-semites

AdelSommer955 karma

I went back in 1989. It was the first time I went back. and..well...the Ukrianian priest and the people in town were nice and helpful during the occupation. I returned with my daughter and cousin, so I was the only one who was really from Tluste. They treated me like a queen. That was unusual because usually people would ask "You're still alive?"

AdelSommer932 karma

I cannot...even...my family was one that suffered from the Soviets but you cannot compare somebody who takes away your home and business to someone who takes away your life. When the Nazis came I used to pray for the day for the Soviets to comeand liberate us. You cannot compare the Nazis with anybody.

AdelSommer869 karma

Yes. And they were helpful. The German managers of the forced labor camp chased away those who would kill us.

During one of the raids of the Gestapo at the forced labor camp when the good Germans were not there, they surrounded the camp and took the workers , some ran a away and they war shot at and killed, and they made the people dig they own graves. A friend of ours was bought with his sister (his parents ran and were killed while they were running), and a young man by the name of Tsvee saw a German soldier about his age gave him a pen knife and said i want you to take this so you remember you killed someone for no reason. The soldier did not want to take it. then the good German came back and stopped the killing. He said he didn't know who was happier, him for not being killed, or the young soldier for not having to kill him. My friend and his sister are still alive today.