WW2 memoirs "One for All"  written by a boy soldier Nikolay Konstantinovich IMCHUK, Russia

Nikolay Konstantinovich IMCHUK, DOB 20 May 1930. He is the youngest male soldier of WWII.  Soon after the outbreak of the war, German planes bombed his orphanage in Uman near Kiev, Ukraine. In the first days of the German invasion, Nikolay, an eleven-year-old orphanage pupil, happened to find himself at the front together with retreating Soviet troops. Then he was injured, captured, put into a POW camp (Nazis held in the Uman POW camp 60,000-70,000 prisoners), and went underground.

He survived and managed to escape before the final execution of prisoners. He took part in the resistance movement as a partisan messenger. After the liberation of his town, he begged a Soviet officer to let him join a front-line unit. In March 1944 he joined 328th ‘Katyusha’ Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) regiment as a boy soldier – which was common during the war. Soldiers took care of him and educated him. His unit took part in the liberation of Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and Austria. He retired from the Army in September 1945. Author of the memoirs "One for All", which was translated into English in 2019. It tells the life stories of the real people, about war as it is, with neither embellishment nor understatement.

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