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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...

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

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?! ...

An interview with my grandfather about his wartime memories....

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."...

Programme of the youth encounter in Oldau during 18-24 Mаrch 2018....

2017 is over, it was quite full of events. Thanks to this project I was able to discover new places, meet new interesting friends....

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....

Programme of the internal meeting of the Ukrainian group in Kyiv, 15-17 December 2017....

It’s always nice to see old friends. The moment you first look at someone you can precisely tell how sincere they are, smile and let them know in respon...

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....

My impressions about an intermediate meeting in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, which was taken on 15-17 September 2017....

For the second year in a row participants of an international project “History begins in the family” are taking part in the unique historical quest....

Programme of the youth meeting in Oświęcim, Poland, 5-11 Nov 2017....

The first interim meeting of the Ukrainian team took place in Vinnytsia. The goal was to discuss the questions we might have had about the interviews, g...

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...

The international non-governmental organisation Foundations for Freedom (Ukraine), the International Youth Meeting Centre in Oświęcim/Auschwitz (Poland)...

Programme of the internal meeting of the Ukrainian group in Vinnytsia, September 15-17'17...

I would like to share my impressions from the participation in the international project “History begins in the family” with you. The first session of t...

After a quite exhausting trip from Hannover (GER) to Lviv, our week in Ukraine has finally started. First of all, I have to say that I had the chance to...

History begins in the family is an international youth project that has revealed not only the truth but was also the reason for me to start my own inves...

Every time you enter different projects you are scrolling through all possible scenarios in your head, tuning yourself only on positive waves. So you ca...

Description of tasks to be performed by the project participants before the meeting in Oswiecim in November 2017....

Presentation by Oleh Ovcharenko during the Lviv encounter, 2017....

Biography of a former Soviet prisoner who took part and collaborated with the OUN in times of the WW2....

Programme of the project activities in Lviv, Ukraine, during 3-9 July 2017....

From January 17 to 21, 1945, the Auschwitz administration evacuated about 58 thousand prisoners into the depths of the Reich. At the same time, the SS w...

After the outbreak of World War II, the Wehrmacht set up a camp for Belgian and French prisoners of war in huts at the edge of the Bergen Military Train...

Presentation on how to use recording devices in interviews (English)....

Presentation of what is oral history and how it differs from the handbooks on history....

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