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These are the ten Lysenko brothers. All of them veterans of the harshest fighting of the WW2, and all of them survived to return home. They took part in battles against Germans in the West and against the Japanese in the Far East.
A Soviet family without a son or father lost to the Great Patriotic War was a rare thing indeed. It was quite common for all of the men in the family to perish on the battlefield.
Interesting is the story of Evdokia Danilovna Lysenko’s ten sons, who set off for the front from their Ukrainian village of Brovakha and managed to return, all, home alive.
Nikolai was the first one to come back, having miraculously survived an explosion that had killed seven of his comrades. In 1944, he was discharged from the hospital and sent home to his mother.
His brother Ivan braved all of Ukraine, ending up at the Treblinka concentration camp and managing to escape. He continued to fight and ended his service in Romania.
Two other brothers had an accidental meeting there, as well. In Aug 1944, on the outskirts of the city of Iasi, Mikhail saw Feodosiy: “I jumped into the trench where he was and hugged him, we both cried…” After the fighting in Hungary, the brothers came back with disabilities. Mikhail was heavily wounded in the chest, while Feodosiy was left without a leg.
Andrey and Pavel were sent to labor camps in Germany, but managed to survive and joined up with attacking Red Army battalions.
Other brother, Vasiliy, was wounded three times, receiving the order of the Red Star.
In 1946, Peter, a communications officer, also returned home.
For his part, Aleksandr, who served as a signalman, reached to Berlin.
While tank driver Stepan, having been wounded in Eastern Prussia, was sent to Manchuria to fight the Japanese. The war was over by the time he got there, however. He was the last of the brothers to come home, in 1947.
The mother, Evdokia Lysenko, died in 1967, at the age of 73. All of her sons except Vasiliy (died before) were in attendance at its funeral.
A Soviet family without a son or father lost to the Great Patriotic War was a rare thing indeed. It was quite common for all of the men in the family to perish on the battlefield.
Interesting is the story of Evdokia Danilovna Lysenko’s ten sons, who set off for the front from their Ukrainian village of Brovakha and managed to return, all, home alive.
Nikolai was the first one to come back, having miraculously survived an explosion that had killed seven of his comrades. In 1944, he was discharged from the hospital and sent home to his mother.
His brother Ivan braved all of Ukraine, ending up at the Treblinka concentration camp and managing to escape. He continued to fight and ended his service in Romania.
Two other brothers had an accidental meeting there, as well. In Aug 1944, on the outskirts of the city of Iasi, Mikhail saw Feodosiy: “I jumped into the trench where he was and hugged him, we both cried…” After the fighting in Hungary, the brothers came back with disabilities. Mikhail was heavily wounded in the chest, while Feodosiy was left without a leg.
Andrey and Pavel were sent to labor camps in Germany, but managed to survive and joined up with attacking Red Army battalions.
Other brother, Vasiliy, was wounded three times, receiving the order of the Red Star.
In 1946, Peter, a communications officer, also returned home.
For his part, Aleksandr, who served as a signalman, reached to Berlin.
While tank driver Stepan, having been wounded in Eastern Prussia, was sent to Manchuria to fight the Japanese. The war was over by the time he got there, however. He was the last of the brothers to come home, in 1947.
The mother, Evdokia Lysenko, died in 1967, at the age of 73. All of her sons except Vasiliy (died before) were in attendance at its funeral.