We were barely allowed to take anything to the labor camp
Mr. Michal Kohutič was born on December 21st 1924 in Uzhhorod, Carpathian Ruthenia. He has been taken off the gymnasium and transported to the labor camp in Romania in 1943. He ran away from the camp through a front on the Soviet side of war. There he was captured, but once again he managed escape — this time from Soviet captivity. Unfortunately he was caught by the Cossacks. In 1944 he steeped into the army troop commanded by Lt. Svoboda and served as a submachine gunner. He participated in the Dukla pass battle and fought in Slovakia. After the end of the war he began to study at the University of Medicine. After 1948 he was persecuted by communist regime and was forced to work in a factory. He was fully rehabilitated again in 1989 and in 1991 successfully graduated from medical school.