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Mauthausen Concentration Camp If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Those known to have been held in or employed at Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Second World War 1939-1945. Bunelik Vassily Rodionovitch. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records from Mauthausen Concentration Camp other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. 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Vassily Rodionovitch "George" Bunelik Crosspark My Grandfather, Vassily Bunelik was taken prisoner after escaping from Mauthausen concentration camp (Leibnitz) in April or May 1944. He had no documents but called himself George Platonenko so as not to be returned to Mauthausen. As he believed he'd been found out he escaped from Maribor in June 1944 end fled to Hungary where he was interred yet again until the end of the war, when he returned to Lviv in Ukraine and picked up life again as a teacher. He wrote an account of his escape which I have translated as best as I can and put on his website. Vasily Rodionovich Bunelik was a Ukrainian educator who was politically active during the second world war and wrote about the horrors of Mauthausen Concentration Camp where he was imprisoned and from where he escaped. The book is in Ukrainian, but he wrote a Russian version in manuscript which has been translated here by his daughter and grandson.... "I and several other prisoners were taken to the railway station to unload boxes of machines for the factory. The boxes were so heavy that they could not even be budged. Enraged, the Fascist beat us, but it did not help. Then he took out a pistol from his holster and began to beat each of us with the handle, at random and I got a blow in the stomach I groaned, but recovered from the blow and asked the beast pleadingly:Believe me, I want to do it, but I don't have the strength. There's no point in beating me, nothing will help, when there is no strength .. Nearby some Germans were working. One of them came up and said something to the SS. He nodded. We went quiet. What was awaiting us? Three metres away from us lay a half-rotten swede. I asked the SS guard permission to take it. Take it! he agreed. I instantly grabbed the swede and began to eat. "Stop! Vek Lassen!" cried suddenly the SS., infection! "He hit my hand and knocked down the swede, but in an instant it was in the hands of another famished prisoner. The SS lashed him with a whip. A third hungry inmate swallowed the remnants of the completely rotten swede. The SS hit him hard with his whip on the head. Leslie Thompson Add to this record. Vassily Rodionovitch "George" Bunelik Crosspark My Grandfather, Vassily Bunelik was taken prisoner after escaping from Mauthausen concentration camp (Leibnitz) in April or May 1944. He had no documents but called himself George Platonenko so as not to be returned to Mauthausen. As he believed he'd been found out he escaped from Maribor in June 1944 end fled to Hungary where he was interred yet again until the end of the war, when he returned to Lviv in Ukraine and picked up life again as a teacher. He wrote an account of his escape which I have translated as best as I can and put on his website. Vasily Rodionovich Bunelik was a Ukrainian educator who was politically active during the second world war and wrote about the horrors of Mauthausen Concentration Camp where he was imprisoned and from where he escaped. The book is in Ukrainian, but he wrote a Russian version in manuscript which has been translated here by his daughter and grandson.... "I and several other prisoners were taken to the railway station to unload boxes of machines for the factory. The boxes were so heavy that they could not even be budged. Enraged, the Fascist beat us, but it did not help. Then he took out a pistol from his holster and began to beat each of us with the handle, at random and I got a blow in the stomach I groaned, but recovered from the blow and asked the beast pleadingly:Believe me, I want to do it, but I don't have the strength. There's no point in beating me, nothing will help, when there is no strength .. Nearby some Germans were working. One of them came up and said something to the SS. He nodded. We went quiet. What was awaiting us? Three metres away from us lay a half-rotten swede. I asked the SS guard permission to take it. Take it! he agreed. I instantly grabbed the swede and began to eat. "Stop! Vek Lassen!" cried suddenly the SS., infection! "He hit my hand and knocked down the swede, but in an instant it was in the hands of another famished prisoner. The SS lashed him with a whip. A third hungry inmate swallowed the remnants of the completely rotten swede. The SS hit him hard with his whip on the head. Leslie Thompson Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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