Dmitry Bergman Biography

Those who did not survive mainly left nothing. The case of the Volga Germans evicted from the Republic of the Germans to Siberia Dmitry Bergman is an exception: he kept a diary that managed to preserve it to the descendants. His wife is already voting in the yard. I advise M. in m they got married and from the Orenburg region moved to the Republic of the Germans of the Volga region.

Dmitry Bergman was then 39 years old. He taught mathematics in high school, was a head teacher of the high school of the village of Kukkus and at the same time studied in absentia at the physical instructions of the Pedagogical Institute in Engels. At birth in the year, he received the German name Dietrich, who, after the revolution, replaced Dmitry to Russian.

In the First World Bergman served in the office of the sanitary detachment, since Vera did not allow picking up weapons. He was no longer given to the second world weapon. Carts, carts, many supply: horses, bulls, camels; Even a few cars ... We are loaded on camels and bring us to school, to the square. There we are located with our belongings. We should take us to the train by trucks.

But they are not. The train seems to have to go at eight in the evening. Six hours - there are no cars.

Eight are the same. The military, who are apparently invisible, calm down: everyone will be sent. We run from the military to drivers and ask us to send us. Isn't it funny! We ask us to be expelled! .. Dmitry Bergman recorded in German days with small breaks and called them Unsere Reise “Our Way”. He just released the 10th grade and in the school notebook he began to keep a diary with a pencil with a clean handwriting.

” A small village, at home for the most part made of turf. An oppressive impression! .. Dmitry Bergman with his wife and two little sons, Ernst and Igor, ended up in the village of Tigino, Chistozerny district of the Novosibirsk region. One dish is smaller! Everything lies on M.'s shoulders, if only she would not catch a cold: if she gets sick, we disappeared.

There is still no flour. And our stock came to an end. So, sitting on one potato, otherwise you need to take up a manual mill. Fortunately, something similar was found in this bear corner. People are already chasing themselves. Another step back, towards primitive times! Further from culture and technology. How many such steps still have to take? .. How good for him is that the family spoke Russian!

Now he is quite recognized in the Russian environment. Igor also spoke Russian. The first attempts made 10-14 days after arrival. Of course, you can still hear offers from him like: "Dad, Dann will fall und will." But the beginning is laid. The boys are gradually Russify. In the evening, washing and bathing. Nice to feel clean. But in Ernst we found a fair amount of nits.

The result of walks?! There are no guarantees that I did not pick up lice either. The vile situation! There is so much dirt around that it takes horror. In the room, in food, in clothes ... Brr! I would like to end life in more purity, in more cultural conditions. Irina Shcherbakova, the head of the educational and educational programs of the Memorial, explained to the presentation what was delaying the reading of the diary this way: “Dmitry Bergman describes with German accurateness what they put on the road how they are equipped, how they spend the day.

This truth makes a strong impression, because even in the most difficult situation, this person with a centuries-old German Zakovskaya tries to bring some order to the absurdity at any cost. ” Quietly and imperceptibly. True, M. gave boys a piece of sugar. Sad New Year! She spends all day in the office. In the evening we work, I am lying in bed! I lie from morning to evening.

Singing the mountain! This is one of the last records in the diary. Dmitry Bergman went to Siberia to the sick. And there was a terrible frost, almost 48 degrees. We quickly fell asleep of the grave and left on the sleigh. The next summer I could not find my father’s grave. ” Shortly before his death, Dmitry Bergman received a summons of a call to the labor, but could not appear on it.

The state was filled with loss in labor resources: Margarita Bergman was mobilized. She had to leave her sons. She was able to return for them only after the war, in August. Later, Margarita Bergman rewrote her husband’s diary and provided him with her comments. 40 years after the death of his father, Ernst Bergman, an employee of the Faculty of Art and Graphic, the Novosibirsk Pedagogical Institute, translated a diary into Russian.

For publication, the transfer was redesigned and specified. He describes everyday life and does it even with humor. ” Bergman’s entry of September 14 was prophetic both for him and in general for Russian Germans: “We arrive in Urbach and leave the territory of the Republic of the Germans of the Volga region. Goodbye forever!