First Art-Conference

Children of War 2021

On May 6-8, we started collecting stories about children who found themselves inside military conflicts.
Reports
First Art-Conference

Children of War 2021

On May 6-8, we started collecting stories about children who found themselves inside military conflicts.
literary day
First Art-Conference

Children of War 2021

On May 6-8, we started collecting stories about children who found themselves inside military conflicts.
Artists' paintings

So the First Art Conference «Children of War» ended.

Despite the small number of participants, it turned out to be a complete immersion in the topic.

There were good stories about the fate of wartime children.
The speakers were well prepared and talked about real children with different destinies.

The artists let through what they heard in the reports and conveyed the emotional part of the stories in colors.

Reports

Grandfather I know

Vladimir Florovich Bartosh

When the war came, he was 16 years old, he lived with his parents in the village of Mozoli, Pruzhany district, and helped his parents on the collective farm fields.

In 1942, he joined the partisan detachment of S.M. Kirov and became a liaison there.
For 2 years of work, the underground workers led hundreds of partisan groups through the village and the Ruzhany-Vinnitsa highway.
Participated in the distribution of leaflets and other publications of the Brest Anti-Fascist Committee.

In September 1944, Vladimir Bartosh was drafted into the Red Army on the 1st Ukrainian Front.
He traveled his difficult military path from Ruzhany to Berlin, was a gun commander, and was a participant in the liberation of Prague.
For military operations he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany".

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Video story prepared by Dmitry Ageevets
Head - Ageevets Alexander Mikhailovich
State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 13 of Brest named after V.I. Khovan"

Exported to Germany

Vlasyuk Alexander Mikhailovich

A native of the village of Bolshoe Selishche, Kamenetsky district.
Alexander Mikhailovich was born on June 6, 1939.

In the first years of the Great Patriotic War, he escaped the execution of the entire village and was taken to Germany with his mother and ended up in a family for forced labor.

Alexander Mikhailovich remembers well the attitude of the German family in which he and his mother lived and worked.
The owners treated them well, there were many such captive workers (the whole village consisted of houses divided in two), there were also prisoners from France.
Everyone talked, went to church, the captive children played with the German children.

After his release, Alexander Mikhailovich returned home with his mother.
His father also returned from the concentration camp.

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The report was prepared by Tatyana Gupalo
Head - Yurasova Victoria Vladimirovna
State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 13 of Brest named after V.I. Khovan"

Left an orphan

Sverdlov Matvey Zundeleevich

Matvey Zundeleevich was born in 1926 in the Sharkovshchina region in the Vitebsk region.
When Matvey was 14 years old, the war broke out. All the young man's relatives, including his parents, two brothers and a sister, were shot by the Germans.
At the age of 15, Matvey Zundeleevich entered the school, after which he was immediately sent to the front.
During the war he received several wounds, one of which was severe.
He worked as a tank repairman, in October 1944 he was transferred to the Kazan Tank Technical School.
There he met Victory Day, when he was waiting to be sent to the front.

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The report was prepared by Kovalskaya Daria
Head - Pereverzeva Ludmila Mikhailovna
State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 14 named after E.M. Fomin, Brest"

War-torn childhood

Anatoly Pavlovich Garay

Born in 1936 in the Gomel region.
His family moved to Brest in February 1940 when his father was transferred to the service.

Anatoly Pavlovich met the war in Brest with the roar of aircraft and bombing.
In the first hours his father left home and never returned.

With the arrival of German troops, the border of the Brest ghetto passed right along the street where Anatoly Pavlovich lived.
The boy could not understand why his friend Leiba was behind the fence and they could not play as before.

Before the release, the family of Anatoly Pavlovich left Brest for the surrounding village, where they met the release.

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The report was prepared by Daria Khuzyakhmetova
Head - Nichiporuk Anastasia Eduardovna
State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 3 of Brest"

Two little fighters

Volodya Dubinin

This brave partisan scout, pioneer hero was born on August 29, 1927. in the city of Kerch, Crimean region.

When the war began, Volodya Dubinin went to the partisan detachment, which fought in the quarries.
Small and nimble Volodya crawled through the narrow crevices of the catacombs and thus provided invaluable assistance to the entire detachment.

In January 1942, Volodya Dubinin volunteered to accompany the commander of the partisan detachment as a guide.
I had to move through a minefield and Volodya Dubinin, along with other fighters, died.
He was only 14 years old.

Dubinin was posthumously awarded the Order of the "Red Banner" for his feat.


Valentina Taran

She was born in 1934, in the city of Kerch, Crimean region.

At the age of seven, Valya became a nurse in an army hospital.
She cared for the wounded, led by the hand those who began to walk.

During the war years, Valya traveled with army carts through all of Ukraine, and near Berlin she saved a hospital from being blown up by saboteurs.
After the war, Valentina Taran returned with her mother to Kerch.

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The report was prepared by Oksana Stupakevich
Head - Maksimovich Larisa Ivanovna
State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 32 of Brest"

Literary day

Literary panorama

The second day of the Art Conference was marked by a literary panorama, the participants of which got acquainted with literary sources that tell about a difficult military childhood.

A conversation with Pavel Gushints, who collects stories and memories from the "last witnesses" of the Great Patriotic War and publishes them in the books "Sasha's Girl's War" and "The War Outside Our Windows", helped to plunge into the military theme.

In these books there are no heroes crowned with glory and medals of winners. They contain the fates of children who faced an important and difficult task to survive. Survive in the camp. Survive in captivity. Survive the occupation.

Participants of the literary panorama were able to get acquainted with almost fifty editions of works telling about the difficult military childhood.

Video in Russian

Paintings

Pictures of the conference participants

Paintings that participated in the exhibition, painted by students
drawn during the analysis of this topic in the classroom

2021 organizers

Library them. Pushkin

organizer

Central city children's library-branch №13
GUK «Brest Central City Library. A.S. Pushkin»

Abrys Club

organizer

Limited Liability Company «KLUBABRIS»

Partners 2021

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