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2017-2018
2015-2016
Three Fundamental Values Behind a Successful Storytelling
This year, the project team faced a number of challenges which also turned out to be opportunities. We moved from a part...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
22.02.2021
Heinz Goetz
My grandfather was born in 1939 in Delmenhorst. Two years later, his father, a public servant, was transferred to Orlová...
Nadjeschda Stoffers
21.02.2021
Teresa Kozyra
Teresa was 10 years old when the war started. She lived with her family in a small village of Sikorzyce in the Tarnów po...
Klaudia Fizia
20.02.2021
Insights into working with family narratives
I decided to take part in this project because I am very interested in the culture(s) of remembrance and oral history. I...
Franziska Lamp
18.02.2021
Anna H.
Extract from the interview with Anna H. in which she recounts her family history & her memories of the time of the Secon...
Franziska Lamp
17.02.2021
Czesława Poprawska
I interviewed my aunt, Czesława Poprawska, born in 1928, who used to live in Kościan (a town in the Greater Poland Voivo...
wera-rataj@o2.pl
16.02.2021
To be open for new experiences and not to be afraid of chang...
I found out about the project from my high school Polish language teacher. He suggested that I took part in a program or...
Katarzyna Żywko
15.02.2021
Zofia Płaszewska
Oscar Wilde once said, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." I interviewed my gran...
Katarzyna Żywko
14.02.2021
Gert Malerius
Gert Malerius grew up in East Prussia, the town of Pillau. Close to the end of World War II, he had to flee with his mot...
Jakov Malerius
07.02.2021
The Hope That Helps to Overcome Fear and Get Through Challen...
This project has become an important step in my life. At first, it took me a long time to make up my mind to take part. ...
Alina Tanasova
05.02.2021
In memory of Stepan Horechyi
We met by pure serendipity, once I was a team member of the project. Mr. Horechyi amazed me with his fortitude, his lust...
Daryna Petrenko
04.02.2021
A former political prisoner of...
Sharing with you sad news. Yesterday, Mr. Stepan Horechyi, 91 years old public activist, a former political prisoner of ...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
03.02.2021
Grażyna Oczkowicz
Grażyna Oczkowicz was born in December 1937 in the village of Rzędowice in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Grażyna was th...
Aleksandra Oczkowicz
25.01.2021
Maria Brunnenkant
When Maria was only a few weeks old, the cruel and inhuman World War II was already raging. Her first years of childhood...
Laura Kuzaj
22.01.2021
Hanna Marshalok
I interviewed my grandmother Hanna Marshalok (maiden name: Zemba). She was born on April 12, 1948, in the village of Sta...
Mykhailo Marshalok
21.01.2021
Zdzisław Cabaj
I interviewed my father who was born in 1959. In the conversation, dad recalls stories related to World War II that he h...
Sylwia Cabaj
19.01.2021
Pylyp Slabyi
I've heard stories about World War II since my childhood. So during the project, I decided to learn more about my ancest...
Kateryna Uzhevska
18.01.2021
Elli Treptow
I interviewed my grandmother on October 4, 2020. She was born in 1936 in Grünberg (Zielona Góra), close to Lodz (Poland)...
Marlene Rehbein
16.01.2021
Genowefa Ruman
Genowefa Ruman was born in Jastrzębik in 1949. She had eight siblings. Their parents were working hard to provide for th...
Gabriela Kolodziej
15.01.2021
Achim
In November 2020, I called my great-aunt Ursula and my great-uncle Achim to talk to them about their experiences during ...
Pauline Reinhardt
14.01.2021
When the memory of our relatives lives on…
Unfortunately, my family has never been interested in family history before. The project offered me a great opportunity ...
Daria Nesterenko
13.01.2021
Oleksii Sydorov
Oleksii Sydorov was born in 1920. Until the beginning of World War II served in the Soviet Army in the Navy since 1938. ...
Daria Nesterenko
12.01.2021
Bernd Müller
Bernd grew up in Northern Germany. He speaks about his childhood memories during and after the war, the role that Nation...
Linh Müller
11.01.2021
Semen Hеrasymovych
A story of an ordinary man who served as a scout during the Second World War.
Sophia Pivtorack
08.01.2021
Kazys Romanas Valys
My grandfather Kazys Romanas Valys was born on May 25th in 1942 in the Raseniai district municipality, Lithuania. His mo...
Roberta Bartkutė
07.01.2021
Ivan Zakharov
Ivan Zakharov was born in 1918 in Zorka village, Orel province (Russia). In 1938, he was called up for military service ...
Ivan Hryvko
05.01.2021
In defeat we gain...
I’m sharing a story that helped me improve my relationship with my grandfather. This story is about how failure can beco...
Serhii Khvorov
03.01.2021
Beyond the Borders: Human Experiences Across Generations and...
In December, participants of the project gathered for the final online session on presenting their family stories. Under...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
19.12.2020
Hałyna Serhijenko
Halyna Serhijenko was born in 1946 in Mariupol, Donetsk oblast. She tells about the events that took place in her family...
Mark Borodai
11.12.2020
Yakiv Trusov
This story is about our father, grandfather, and great-grandfather who took part in the most fierce battles of the Germa...
Valentyna Kasian
11.12.2020
Raisa Tokarevych
This is the story of a Russian girl who remembers famine and Soviet collective farms and was able to survive by finding ...
Yuliia Gaman
11.12.2020
Ivan Holiak
The history of my family reflects life in a totalitarian regime. All that my great grandfather and great-grandmother wen...
Mykhailo Didenko
11.12.2020
Zinaida Laskova
Zinaida Laskova was born on August 21, 1926 in the village of Hnylozubivka into a large family. She survived the Holodom...
Alina Tanasova
08.12.2020
Halfway Point Reached: How an Online Program Has Become a Pl...
October has become a special month for the participants of the History Begins in the Family project. Over 30 young peopl...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
03.11.2020
Stepan Horechyi
Life story of a political prisoner of the Soviet totalitarian regime, who passed through 10 years of prison labour camps...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
20.10.2020
Inception: Online programme within the project "History begi...
This week was a special time for us: an online program within the project “History Begins in the Family” has been launch...
Hanna Veres
04.10.2020
Call for young participants from Ukraine for the internation...
Hanna Veres
09.08.2020
History begins in the family: ...
Hanna Veres
05.08.2020
Youth encounter in Bergen-Belsen
Oleksa Stasevych
11.07.2018
Youth encounter in Bergen-Belsen 18-24 Mar 2018
Oleksa Stasevych
11.06.2018
Semion Gelman
Semion Gelman was born on October 15, 1927 in Leningrad. He survived the siege of Leningrad. Worked as a teacher of Hist...
Iryna Simonenko
16.04.2018
Zofia Mazur
Zofia Mazur was born on the 24th of November 1936 in Semenivka, 25 km from Lviv. During World War II, like many others, ...
Ola Makowiecka
14.04.2018
Vira Paripsa
Vira Paripsa, my grandmother, was born February 1, 1935 in the Rososha village to a family of 11 children. She witnessed...
Olga Solonenko
13.04.2018
Sigrid Henning
My grandmother was born on the 15th of February 1945 in Bielefeld. She grew up There and completed an apprenticeship a...
Melina Henning
02.04.2018
Rita Althausen
R. Althausen is vice chairwoman of the German-Israeli Society (DIG) and daughter of Oskar Altmann, who is a witness of t...
Philipp Blaich
30.03.2018
Oliver Jagolski
I interviewed my father, who was born in 1972 and will talk about his father and grand father as well as his uncle. H...
Natalia Jagolski
29.03.2018
Stefaniya Duts
Stefaniya Duts was born on May 22, 1935 in Volya Gorodecka, Lublin region, Poland. She was relocated to Donbas. Later es...
Marko Basarab
23.03.2018
Andrzej Iwan
Andrzej Iwan - wartime memories of a child. Andrzej Iwan was born in November 1939. As a child he had a different per...
Wanda Iwan
22.03.2018
Christa Maischak
Christa grew up in 1930's in a small village near Breslau, today Wrocław. She and her family was forced to leave their h...
Theresa Maischak
20.03.2018
Stanisław Baszowiecki
Stanisław Baszowiekci was born in 26.051940r. in Przemiwółki village, in Lviv voivodship. He had to move from his home t...
Natalia Penar
20.03.2018
Stanisław Iwach
Stanisław Iwach was born in 1935, in Tarnopol, within the Eastern Borderlands. He was one of the 7 siblings. In 1944, wh...
Martyna Iwach
20.03.2018
Edward Szukiel
Edward Szukiel was born in 1930 in Wozgielance, Wilno region. He has 4 siblings. His father was a blacksmith. He was rai...
Aleksandra Peisert
20.03.2018
Oleksandr Salun
Oleksandr Salun (my grandfather) was born on January 20, 1942 in the village of Muravy, Novhorod-Siverskyi region, Chern...
Oleksandra Vorotilova
18.03.2018
Programme in Oldau, 18-24.03.2018
Oleksa Stasevych
16.03.2018
Anna Fokina (Sherdits)
Anna Fokina (Sherdits), my great grandmother, was born on August 8, 1923 in the village of Krestyshe, Sovetskiy district...
Victoria Oros
14.03.2018
Kyrylo Vasylenko
My grandfather, Vasylenko Myhailo, tells us about his father, my great-grandfather, Kyrylo Vasylenko, born 1918. During ...
Vladyslav Kravtsev
15.02.2018
Nadiia Loboda
She was born in 1939 on the 16th of January in Novomykolayivka, Zaporizhzhia region,Ukraine. The beginning of the Second...
Anton Samoylenko
05.02.2018
My impressions after meetings in Oświęcim and Kyiv
Vladyslav Kravtsev
10.01.2018
Youth encounter in Oświęcim 5-11 Nov 2017
Oleksa Stasevych
15.12.2017
Programme in Kyiv, 15-17.12.2017
Oleksa Stasevych
05.12.2017
Comments on the 2nd encounter in Oświęcim
Marko Basarab
22.11.2017
Olena Borzenko
Olena Borzenko was born in the village of Vysokyi, Kharkiv region in 1953. She is the only child in her family. Her pare...
Daryna Petrenko
13.11.2017
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Visit of the group to the memorial site
Oleh Ovcharenko
08.11.2017
My impressions from the intermediate meeting in Vinnytsia
Vladyslav Kravtsev
13.10.2017
A unique quest reveals the history of Lviv during WWII to th...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
11.10.2017
Programme in Oświęcim, 5-11.11.2017
Oleksa Stasevych
01.10.2017
Meeting with Stepan Horechyi (2017)
Oleksa Stasevych
25.09.2017
Comments on the meeting in Vinnytsia
Daryna Petrenko
25.09.2017
Youth meeting in Vinnytsia
Oleksa Stasevych
20.09.2017
Volodymyr Poznyar
Volodymyr Poznyar (my grandfather) was born on February 28, 1934 in Chimkent (Southern Kazakhstan). In 1938 (during the ...
Yuliia Bezzubko
16.09.2017
Historical quest "Lviv on the map of memory about the Second...
Liudmyla Levcheniuk
06.09.2017
Youth encounter in Lviv 3-9 July 2017
Oleksa Stasevych
05.09.2017
"History begins in the family..." Polish-German-Ukrainian yo...
Elżbieta Pasternak
29.08.2017
Programme in Vinnytsia, 15-17.09.2017
Oleksa Stasevych
24.08.2017
Reflections after the first session of the History begins in...
Vladyslav Kravtsev
14.08.2017
First Meeting in Lviv: Review
Natalia Jagolski
14.08.2017
My reflections after the first session in Lviv
Daryna Petrenko
14.08.2017
Feedback about the first session of the History begins in th...
Marko Basarab
01.08.2017
Youth encounter in Lviv
Oleksa Stasevych
15.07.2017
Meeting with Stepan Horechyi
Oleksa Stasevych
15.07.2017
Historical quest in Lviv 2017
Oleksa Stasevych
14.07.2017
Post-truth and post-morality: How do we define the impact of...
Oleksa Stasevych
03.07.2017
Stepan HORECHYI
Oleksa Stasevych
02.07.2017
Programme in Lviv 3-9.07.2017
Oleksa Stasevych
01.07.2017
Günter Knura
Oriana Rath
24.04.2017
Meeting with Mrs. Yaroslava Melnychuk
Oleksa Stasevych
30.12.2016
History begins in the family. Youth encounter in Lviv
Oleksa Stasevych
02.07.2016
Historical quest through the WWII memory places in Lviv
Oleksa Stasevych
12.06.2016
History begins in the family. ...
Elżbieta Pasternak
30.05.2016
Photos from the encounter in Lviv, 19-25.03.2016
Oleksa Stasevych
02.04.2016
History begins in the family. Youth encounter in Oświęcim
Oleksa Stasevych
24.03.2016
Yaroslava Melnychuk (Polyuha)
Oleksa Stasevych
17.03.2016
Rozalia Graboń
My great-grandfather Józef Graboń was born on 17th July 1913. My great-grandmother Rozalia was born on 8th February 1916...
Jakub Gomółka
11.03.2016
Programme in Lviv 19-25.03.2016
Oleksa Stasevych
07.03.2016
Stefania Jasińska
Stefania Jasińska (née Kramarczyk) was born on 26th December 1926 in Osiek, Poland. In 1941, she was taken to Germany to...
Aleksandra Płonka
20.02.2016
Karl Juesten
Karl Juesten was born in West Germany. After he graduated school with 17 years, he was conscripted to the German army. F...
Philipp Jüsten
17.02.2016
Józef Boba
The oldest member of my nearest family, my grandfather Józef Boba, was born on 26th December 1932 in Polanka Wielka. To...
Barbara Boba
15.02.2016
Meeting with Mrs. Zofia Posmysz
Oleksa Stasevych
14.02.2016
Hans-Jürgen Symanski
Born on June 17, 1937, in Lyck (today’s Poland). Escaped January 1945 from East Prussia to West Germany together with hi...
Helena Pünjer
09.02.2016
Krystyna Środa
Krystyna Środa was born in 1940. She has been living in Mętków ever since her childhood. She survived the war as a child...
Grzegorz Rusek
09.02.2016
Zofia Listosz
Date of birth: 18th January 1951 Moved to Lublin: 1967 Finished school: 1969 Got married: 30th April 1972 Father's d...
Dominika Pituła
08.02.2016
Pavlo Levytskyi
In 1933 Pavlo was born in the small village Stara Ushytsia, which was a big town back then. When he entered the second g...
Yulia Levytska
07.02.2016
Barbara Mudyna
Barbara Mudyna was born on 6th January 1937. Parents: Gabriela and Eugeniusz Raszek Children: Anna, Krzysztof and Wojc...
Jakub Kamieniarz
06.02.2016
Dariia Zavoiska
Mrs. Dariia Zavoiska was born on June 3, 1950, in the village Verbivka, Perehinske district, Stanislav (today: Ivano-Fra...
Roman Zvarych
06.02.2016
Emilia Kowalska
Emilia was the second youngest child in the family. She had three older sisters: Felicja, Stanisława and Krystyna, and o...
Łukasz Kowalski
06.02.2016
Oleh Pavlish
Oleh Pavlish was born on June 20, 1971, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. He went to school No. 61. After finishing the 8-th gr...
Valeriia Pavlish
06.02.2016
Volodymyr Zalevskyi
My grandfather was born in Odesa oblast (region) on July 3, 1971. In 1986 he graduated from school. In 1991 he graduated...
Serhii Zalevskyi
02.02.2016
Barbara Wyciszkiewicz
Barbara Wyciszkiewicz was born on 30th November 1946 in Katowice. She lives in Łopuszno with her husband Jerzy. She has ...
Paulina Bożyk
01.02.2016
Volodymyr Voitiuk
This interview is about Ivan Nahorniuk, Volodymyr Voitiuk’s grandfather. He was born on the 7th of January 1922 and was ...
Ksenia Voitiuk
31.01.2016
Elvira (Vira) Gutsalo
On March 8, 1945 – was born in Germany, 35 miles from Rhine. At the age of three months came back to Kyiv with her mom. ...
Lilia Trubka
23.01.2016
Zofia Raj
Mrs. Raj was born on 11th May 1950 in Kęty near Oświęcim. She is the daughter of Stanisława and Józef, but she was raise...
Aga Kawczak
18.01.2016
Oświęcim. Important to Stay Together
Oleksa Stasevych
16.12.2015
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Memorial and Museum
Oleksa Stasevych
15.11.2015
Photos from the encounter in Oświęcim, 23-30.10.2015
Oleksa Stasevych
09.11.2015
Lidiya Zubanenko
Lidiya was born on February 12, 1927, in the village Lukshyno, Smolensk region (Russia). In 1935 she went to school. ...
Olia Vasilets
28.10.2015
Programme in Oświęcim 23-30.10.2015
Oleksa Stasevych
23.10.2015
Zofia Posmysz
Oleksa Stasevych
22.10.2015
My dear rose
Olia Vasilets
08.10.2015
Photos from the encounter in Oldau, 23-29.08.2015
Oleksa Stasevych
01.10.2015
History begins in the Family...
Oleksa Stasevych
19.09.2015
The History begins in the family project in figures. Part I
Olia Vasilets
14.09.2015
The Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Daniel Tonn
10.09.2015
Using recording devices while interviewing
Oleksa Stasevych
28.08.2015
Going from the History Books to the Memories of Witnesses an...
Oleksa Stasevych
28.08.2015
Programme in Oldau, 23-29.08.2015
Oleksa Stasevych
15.08.2015
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