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My grandfather survived the siege of Leningrad. After the war he studied Archaeology at the Department of History....
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...
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....
Rita Althausen is the vice-chairwoman of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) and daughter of Oskar Altmann, who survived the pogroms in Mannheim 1938....
My father, Oliver Jagolski, talks about his experiences with coming to terms with the family's history. Yet, despite all efforts, a lot of questions remain unanswered....
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?! ...
This is an interview to find out and record what happened in my family during World War II....
My grandfather speaks about his life, the main focus is put on the emigration from Lviv to the Polish Recovered Territories....
The story of Stanisław Iwach and his family that travelled all the way to Wysoka, Poland from the Tarnopol voivodship in the Eastern Borderlands. The story is presented by an elderly social activist i...
The interview was conducted by my grandfather and his wife with her father, Edward Szukiel, and then prepared by me....
The winter war became a horrendous test for the military. My grandfather said: "After the Nazi had left the Ukrainian village it was occupied by the Bolsheviks."...
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....
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....
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....
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...
