URECHIE MINSK REGION SCHOOL HEADMASTER AT THE AGE OF 18. FROM 1940 -RESPONSIBLE FOR EDUCATION, BREST REGION. WIFE, ANNA, SHOT DOWN BY THE NAZI. TOGETHER WITH 9Y.O.SON VLADIMIR JOINED THE PARTISANS, BECAME VICE- EDITOR FOR THE UNDERGROUND DAILY "ПАТРИОТ РОДИНЫ", UNDERGROUND REGIONAL CPSU COMMITTEE MEMBER. COLLECTED INFO ON TEACHERS TO RE-START SCHOOLS UPON LIBERATION.HEAD OF MINSK REGION EDUCATION COMMITTEE 1944-1969
Background
BORN ON JUNE 8, 1907 INTO A PEASANT FAMILY. HAD 7 SIBLINGS. ASSISTED IN GETTING EDUCATION TO MANY RELATIVES. TOOK TEACHER'S COURSE AND WAS SENT TO HEAD A SCHOOL IN A PREFERABLY JEWISH TOWNSHIP URECHIE. MARRIED ANNA LIVSHITZ, MUSIC TEACHER. HAD ONE SON, VLADIMIR, CURRENTLY PROFESSOR OF HISTORY WITH THE BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY.
Education
BORN INTO A PEASANT FAMILY ON JUNE8, 1907. HAD 7 SIBLINGS. TOOK TEACHERS' COURSES AND WAS APPOINTED HEADMASTER TO A SCHOOL IN URECHIE, WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE, ANNA LIVSHITZ, A MUSIC TEACHER. SON VLADIMIR IS CURRENTLY A FULL PROFESSOR OF HISTORY WITH THE BELARUSIAN STATE UNVERSITY.
Career
IN 1940 HE WAS APPOINTED HEAD OF EDUCATION FOR BREST REGION. ON JUNE, 22 1941 HAD TO LEAVE BREST TO REACH HIS NATIVE VILLAGE, ON FOOT, WITH WIFE AND 7Y.O. SUN. FROM AUTUMN 1941 ASSISTED THE PARTISANS. AFTER THE MURDER OF WIFE ANNA BY THE NAZI JOINED THE PARTISANS WITH VLADIMIR. TOOK PART IN MILITARY, IDEOLOGICAL, JOURNALIST ACTIVITIES. UPON LIBERATION IN 1944 HEADED THE MINSK REGION EDUCATION COMMITTEE. WAS MEMBER OF BELARUS UNESCO DELEGATION. RESIGNED IN 1969 DUE TO SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION. AWARDED THE ORDER OF LENIN, RED BANNER, TWO ORDERS OF LABOUR RED BANNER, MEDALS. RECOGNITION IN PROFESSION IN BELARUS TITLE.
ORGANISED SECONDARY EDUCATION IN BREST REGION IN 1940-1941, MINSK REGION 1944-1969. DURING WOW IIGATHERED INFORMATION ON ALL TEACHERS IN THE AREA TO MALE POSSIBLE TO RE-OPEN SCHOOLS UPON LIBERATION. FOUGT AGAINS THE NAZI. SPREAD INFORMATION ON LIBERATION FIGHT AMONG THE VILLAGERS. PROVIDEDE MATERIALS AND EDITING FOR LEAFLETS AND UNDERGRADUATE DAILY "ПАТРИОТ РОДИНЫ"
Politics
STRONGLY BELIEVED IN THE FAIRNESS, HARD WORK, EQUALITY
Personality
EXTREMELY HARD-WORKING, OVERLY MODEST, CARING, UNSURPASSABLY RESPONSILBE. TOOK CARE OF A BIG NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF EXTENDED FAMILY, ASSISTING THEM IN GETTING HIGHER EDUCATION
Quotes from others about the person
SEE, FOR ONE, АЛЕНА ВАСІЛЕВІЧ "ПАЧАКАЙ, ЗАТРЫМАЙСЯ"
Connections
ONE SON, VLADIMIR. FIRST WIFE, ANNA, MURDERED BY THE NAZI. RE-MARRIED IN 1945. EDUCATED ALSO FOSTER SON VALERY TSVIRKO.
Son:
VLADIMIR
HISTORIAN.GRADUATED FROM MOSCOW STATE UNVERSITY, PH.D. FROM MOSCOW, DR.HAB. FROM MINSK STATE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY. HEADED DEPARTMENTS AT MINSK STATE LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY AND BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY, CURRENTLY FULL PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY OF BELARUS, BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
RECOGNITION IN PROFESSION (TEACHER) TITLE FOR BELARUSSIAN SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
Awards
ORDER OF LENIN, ORDER OF RED BANNER, TWO ORDERS OF LABOUR RED BANNER, MEDALS,
USSR
ORDER OF LENIN WAS THE HIGHEST ORDER IN THE USSR.
THE ORDER OF RED BANNER WAS GIVEN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE FOIGHT AGAIST THE NAZI
THE ORDER OD LABOUR REB BANNER IS FOR RESOGNITION IN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.
ORDER OF LENIN WAS THE HIGHEST ORDER IN THE USSR.
THE ORDER OF RED BANNER WAS GIVEN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE FOIGHT AGAIST THE NAZI
THE ORDER OD LABOUR REB BANNER IS FOR RESOGNITION IN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES.