Tag Archives: WWII
I was born on 15.02.1945 during a bomb attack. My mother and the midwife were left alone, because all the other neighbours had run for cover in a neighbour’s cellar.
The interview was conducted by my grandfather and his wife with her father, Edward Szukiel, and then prepared by me.
During the WW2 my great-grandfather served on the 2nd Ukrainian Front as a machine gunner of machine gunning company of the 4th Separate Guardian motorcycle Fokshan regiment.
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.
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.
The history of Lviv during World War II can be discovered interactively. Experts have developed a unique quest and youth from Germany, Poland and Ukraine have had a chance to run it. The competition, both academic and athletic in nature, took place for the second year in a row (April 2016, July 2017) as part of an international project “History begins in the family”.
Photos from the historical quest across the Lviv streets, 6 July 2017
Meeting of the participants of the History begins in the family project with Mrs.Yaroslava Melnychuk, former prisoner of GULAG.