Tag Archives: Друга світова війна

16.04.2018
Semion Gelman

My grandfather survived the siege of Leningrad. After the war he studied Archaeology at the Department of History.

14.04.2018
Zofia Mazur

During World War II many families were forced to resettle and head to the West leaving behind all their belongings. It was an exhausting travel in goods wagons. Zofia Mazur was a victim of the process.

13.04.2018
Vira Paripsa

The story of survival, an unknown soldier and a family.

23.03.2018
Stefaniya Duts

I don’t know where my dad went. He wasn’t at home for almost a week. When German soldiers left the village he came back and his friend told him: “Don’t show the dog!” But how to hide a dog, where?!

14.03.2018
Anna Fokina (Sherdits)

A story of Lidia, a daughter, and Natalia, granddaughter about their mother and grand-mother Anna Fokina, who have been forcibly moved to Germany and worked there on a plant as ostarbeiters.

05.02.2018
Nadiia Loboda

The war began when Nadiia was not even a one year old, but the worst memories are connected with the post-war times, the famine of 1946-1947.

13.11.2017
Olena Borzenko

My great-granny didn’t know that in February 1943 her sister Motia, all her family including two children – Slavik and Valia – were killed by the SS officers.

16.09.2017
Volodymyr Poznyar

In 1941-1943 my grandfather was a minor prisoner of a Nazi ghetto in Domanivka, Novobohdanivka (Odesa region). He is a son of repressed fathers, former prisoner of a Nazi ghetto. Now he is a pensioner, lives in Donetsk.

17.03.2016
Yaroslava Melnychuk (Polyuha)

      She was born on July 17th, 1929, in the city of Lviv. She received her primary education at ‘Ridna Shkola’ named after Leo I of Galicia. Yaroslava continued her studies at Lviv State Academic Gymnasium. In 1945–1949 she studied at Lviv Medical Institute. She cooperated with the OUN at the same time. … Continue reading Yaroslava Melnychuk (Polyuha) →