International Travelling Exhibition

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Remembrance Book for the prisoners
of Dachau concentration camp

Pyotr S. Kudin 20.12.1924

• * 20.12.1924 in Nova Andriivka, Zaporizhzhia Region (UA)
• Member of the youth Communist organization »Comsomol«
• Founder of a youth underground resistance organization

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• 1943 – 1945 prison in Zaporizhzhia, Dachau Concentration Camp, Death March

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• Forced resettlement in Orsk (today in Russia); on principle, all those returning to the Soviet Union (former concentration camp prisoners, forced laborers, prisoners of war) were suspected of collaboration with the National Socialists and were viewed as potential traitors
• Building engineer in Orsk, Ufa (R), Zaporizhzhia (UA)
• Zoya Leonidovna Rosenmann (1948)
• Daughter Larissa (* 1948), son Pyotr and daughter Galya (* 1954)

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• Remembrance Book Biography Author (2007):
  Viktoria Naumenko (* 1982), Ph.D. Student, Kharkiv (UA)

Pyotr Stepanovich explains how a line of Jews carrying all of their possessions were led by his house. The next morning he heard that they all had been killed - in the clay pit by the brick factory. »They took away all their valuables and then killed them there. The cows, which they led along with them - that all went in the other direction. The people went to their executions with the belief that they were going to be taken to Palestine. Everything was kept so secret [...] that they didn't suspect anything. Do you understand?«

Pyotr Stepanovich recognized Abram Tsypurskii in the line. »›Where are you going?‹ I say, ›Abrasha?‹ ›Well,‹ he says, ›they're bringing us to Palestine.‹« Kudin sighs. »On Monday I went to work and told all the boys, so on and so on ... The terror.«

Interview with Pyotr Kudin, Zaporizhzhia 2006

Members of the resistance group, from left to right:
Pyotr Kudin, Pyotr Mayboroda, Ivan Gaponov, Georgii Dorofeyev (1943)

»I organized an underground resistance group of young people ... We had no means for fighting and no experience. We had ideas, but nothing else. Nonetheless, we distributed pamphlets. We created opposition propaganda for the youth. They shouldn't voluntarily go to Germany.«

Interview with Pyotr Kudin, Munich 2005