Pashkurny Peter Andreevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Тhe CITY: Ukraine, Poltava _x000D_ DATE of BIRTH: 14.06.1925 _x000D_ DATE of DEATH: 22.11.1999 _x000D_ _x000D_ HISTORY: When the General mobilization was announced, my great-grandfather was 16 years old. He, along with everyone else, was going to the front voluntarily, but they did not take him, since he was not 18 years old. Great-grandfather worked for the good of the country, helped in every way, brought victory closer. Mostly he performed manual work: he removed hay, sowed in the collective farm fields. Spring 1942, the second year of the war. And here is the long-awaited summons to the front… My great-grandfather served in a Panzer division and became a General officer. sergeant. On the tank, he passed Ukraine-Belarus-Poland and reached Germany. "Acting as part of the t-34 tank showed courage and bravery. In the area of the village of Wilmersdorf on 25.01.45, the tank crew destroyed a self-propelled gun, a 105 mm anti-aircraft gun and 75 enemy soldiers." In the battles with the Germans, he was seriously wounded in the leg. Four days hiding from the Nazis in the basement of one of the houses, where he was found by Russian partisans. Then he was admitted to a hospital in Lviv, where he stayed until 1947. For the courage and bravery shown in the battle with the German invaders, he was awarded the government award-the medal "for bravery". Great-grandfather returned home, the wounds on his body healed, but the emotional wounds left their mark for life. A lot was experienced on the battlefield-the loss of friends, colleagues, getting injured, participating in the shelling… He didn't say much during the war years, because he remembered it all with tears in his eyes. In 1949, my great-grandfather married my great-grandmother Buzynyuk Tatyana Nikonovna, who worked in the rear during the war. For every Soviet worker, the slogan "Everything for the front, everything for victory" became the law of life. So my great-grandmother worked hard for 10-12 hours a day. Peter and Tatiana gave birth and raised 9 children, they have 23 grandchildren, 39 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren! After going through all the difficulties in their difficult life, they managed to maintain kindness, warmth and love and lived together for 52 years. We the future generation must know and remember our ancestors who gave us life. We owe our lives to our great-grandparents, because it is impossible to forget what was bought at the highest price – the price of our families ' lives.