We used to say back then: There will never be war anymore. A war – that is an awful thing. And look at it today – the war never ended, there is still some war somewhere.
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He was born on December 6, 1925 in Pozdišovce near Michalovce in a peasant family. He attended the elementary school in his native village. In years 1941 - 1944 he was apprenticed to become a tailor in Magura Company in Prešov. By the end of 1944 he volunteered to enlist in the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps and he was drafted on January 1, 1945. After preparations in Michalovce and Humenné and after the 14-day training in Snina he left with the Corps to fight near Liptovský Mikuláš, where he got injured on April 4. After the liberation and dissolution of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps he continued working as a guard of southern Slovak borders in Veľký Meder, later on as a commander of mending dpt. - mending and sewing of clothes in Žilina and Martin. He was demobilized on January 3, 1947. After returning home he worked as a supervisor of the assembly line production in Magura Company in Prešov. In 1950 he got married and moved to Michalovce. He was the first chairman of the producer cooperative, which was gradually expanding. He was in charge of 27 branches almost around the whole Eastern Slovakia. On July 1, 1987 he retired and lives in Michalovce.
