was born in 1924 in a small village in the Kyiv region. In 1942, he was deported to Linz along with his future wife Nina. He was forced to work in manufacturing at the HGW, while Nina worked as a cleaning lady. They were housed in separate camps, which were divided by barbed wire.

Photo: voestalpine Archive Linz; Excerpt from: Karl Fallend, ZwangsarbeiterInnen: (Auto-)Biographische Einsichten, (NS-Zwangsarbeit: Der Standort Linz der „Reichswerke Hermann Göring AG Berlin“ 1938-1945, Ed. Oliver Rathkolb, Vol. 2), Vienna – Cologne – Weimar 2001