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terror
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Powiśle Dąbrowskie
Orlová/Orlau
never again
bombing attacks
Nowy Sącz
Kerch
Azerbaijan
Kriegsgefangener
Jastrzębik
Czechs
Leningrad
Zagorzyn
rural life
Lviv region
exile
Austria
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Flucht
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Nachkriegszeit
сaptivity
online programme
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Russen
emigration
Śmigiel
little homeland
Kindheit
nie wieder
Kolchose
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Nazi-Besetzung
Sibirien
sowjetische Besatzung
тюрма
виправно-трудові табори
УПА
Просвіта
Союз Українок
окупація
Red Army
Rosja
Wojna zimowa
Niemcy
Poles
father
banderites
Staryi Skalat
Ukrainians
German soldiers
партизанська боротьба
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Heinz Goetz
My grandfather was born in 1939 in Delmenhorst. Two years later, his father, a public servant, was transferred to Orlová...
childhood
Czechs
daily life
escape
family memory
Germany
Orlová/Orlau
Russians
Silesia
Nadjeschda Stoffers
21.02.2021
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...
countryside life
Polska
Sikorzyce
Klaudia Fizia
20.02.2021
Klaudia Fizia
20.02.2021
Anna H.
Extract from the interview with Anna H. in which she recounts her family history & her memories of the time of the Secon...
Austria
family memory
Kriegsgefangener
Nachkriegszeit
rural life
Russen
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Franziska Lamp
17.02.2021
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...
daily life
emigration
family memory
Kościan
little homeland
Polska
Śmigiel
wera-rataj@o2.pl
16.02.2021
wera-rataj@o2.pl
16.02.2021
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...
childhood
Nazi occupation
Second World War
Katarzyna Żywko
14.02.2021
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...
East Prussia
escape
Germany
Second World War
Jakov Malerius
07.02.2021
Jakov Malerius
07.02.2021
Grażyna Oczkowicz
Grażyna Oczkowicz was born in December 1937 in the village of Rzędowice in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Grażyna was th...
Armia Krajowa
child's memoirs
childhood
daily life
partisans
Poland
Second World War
volksdeutsch
партизанська боротьба
Aleksandra Oczkowicz
25.01.2021
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...
bombing attacks
childhood
Deutschland
family memory
Germany
Kindheit
never again
nie wieder
Niemcy
Laura Kuzaj
22.01.2021
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...
banderites
family memory
father
German soldiers
Jewish people
Poles
Second World War
Staryi Skalat
Ukrainians
Mykhailo Marshalok
21.01.2021
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...
family memory
Lesser Poland
life during the occupation
memory of the second generation
Poland
Powiśle Dąbrowskie
Second World War
terror
Sylwia Cabaj
19.01.2021
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...
escape
Odesa
Romanian occupation
Second World War
Ukraine
сaptivity
Kateryna Uzhevska
18.01.2021
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)...
family memory
Germany
Lodz
Poland
Red Army
Second World War
trauma
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Marlene Rehbein
16.01.2021
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...
daily life
family memory
Jastrzębik
Krynica Zdroj
Nikifor Krynicki
Nowy Sącz
Polska
Zagorzyn
Gabriela Kolodziej
15.01.2021
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 ...
Deutschland
family memory
Flucht
Schlesien
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Pauline Reinhardt
14.01.2021
Pauline Reinhardt
14.01.2021
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. ...
Azerbaijan
family memory
Kerch
Second World War
Ukraine
Daria Nesterenko
12.01.2021
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...
childhood
Dealing with the past
Germany
Post war period
Second World War
Linh Müller
11.01.2021
Linh Müller
11.01.2021
Semen Hеrasymovych
A story of an ordinary man who served as a scout during the Second World War.
secret service
Ukraina
Zweiter Weltkrieg
Sophia Pivtorack
08.01.2021
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...
deportation
Kolchose
Litauen
Nazi-Besetzung
Sibirien
sowjetische Besatzung
Roberta Bartkutė
07.01.2021
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 ...
Donbas
Leningrad
Red Army
Rosja
Ukraina
Wojna zimowa
Ivan Hryvko
05.01.2021
Ivan Hryvko
05.01.2021
Hałyna Serhijenko
Halyna Serhijenko was born in 1946 in Mariupol, Donetsk oblast. She tells about the events that took place in her family...
childhood
Mariupol
Nazi occupation
Second World War
Ukraine
Mark Borodai
11.12.2020
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...
family memory
Second World War
Ukraine
Valentyna Kasian
11.12.2020
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 ...
Donbas
famine
kolkhoz
Soviet regime
Ukraine
Yuliia Gaman
11.12.2020
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...
childhood
escape
exile
Lviv region
Siberia
Ukraine
Mykhailo Didenko
11.12.2020
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...
childhood
famine
forced labour
Germany
Second World War
Ukraine
Alina Tanasova
08.12.2020
Alina Tanasova
08.12.2020
Semion Gelman
Semion Gelman was born on October 15, 1927 in Leningrad. He survived the siege of Leningrad. Worked as a teacher of Hist...
famine
Jewish people
Second World War
Siege of Leningrad
Iryna Simonenko
16.04.2018
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, ...
Poland
resettlement
Second World War
Ukraine
Ola Makowiecka
14.04.2018
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...
Holocaust
Nazi
Second World War
victim of Nazism
Olga Solonenko
13.04.2018
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...
Germany
Melina Henning
02.04.2018
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...
Franco
Germany
Gurs internment camp
Jewish people
Mannheim
pogrome
Philipp Blaich
30.03.2018
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...
Germany
Hitlerjugend
Luftwaffen-Felddivision
secrets
Wehrmacht
Natalia Jagolski
29.03.2018
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...
Armia Krajowa
Lviv
military service
Poland
Second World War
Ukraine
Marko Basarab
23.03.2018
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...
Armia Krajowa
child's memoirs
childhood
conspiration
Poland
Polish People's Republic (PRL)
Silesia
Sosnowiec
Wanda Iwan
22.03.2018
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...
childhood
Czech Republic
escape
Jewish people
Poland
Silesia
Theresa Maischak
20.03.2018
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...
Lviv
repatriation
Second World War
Wrocław
Natalia Penar
20.03.2018
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...
family memory
Poland
Second World War
Martyna Iwach
20.03.2018
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...
Armia Krajowa
internment
military service
partyzantka
Poland
Red Army
Second World War
Aleksandra Peisert
20.03.2018
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...
local police
partisans
Ukraine
Winter war
Oleksandra Vorotilova
18.03.2018
Oleksandra Vorotilova
18.03.2018
Anna Fokina (Sherdits)
Anna Fokina (Sherdits), my great grandmother, was born on August 8, 1923 in the village of Krestyshe, Sovetskiy district...
Second World War
Ukraine
Victoria Oros
14.03.2018
Victoria Oros
14.03.2018
Kyrylo Vasylenko
My grandfather, Vasylenko Myhailo, tells us about his father, my great-grandfather, Kyrylo Vasylenko, born 1918. During ...
Mongolia
Poltava region
Soviet Army
Ukraine
Vladyslav Kravtsev
15.02.2018
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...
famine
Second World War
Ukraine
Anton Samoylenko
05.02.2018
Anton Samoylenko
05.02.2018
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...
ghetto
Kharkiv
labor camp
Second World War
Ukraine
Daryna Petrenko
13.11.2017
Daryna Petrenko
13.11.2017
Volodymyr Poznyar
Volodymyr Poznyar (my grandfather) was born on February 28, 1934 in Chimkent (Southern Kazakhstan). In 1938 (during the ...
concentration camp
ghetto
Nazi
Second World War
Stalinist repression
Ukraine
victim of Nazism
Yuliia Bezzubko
16.09.2017
Yuliia Bezzubko
16.09.2017
Günter Knura
In the interview my grandfather Günter Knura tells about his experiences and about his childhood during the war.
Deutsches Jungvolk
Germany
Second World War
Oriana Rath
24.04.2017
Oriana Rath
24.04.2017
Meeting with Mrs. Yaroslava Melnychuk
Meeting of the participants of the History begins in the family project with Mrs.Yaroslava Melnychuk, former prisoner of...
GULAG
Lviv
Soviet occupation
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
Oleksa Stasevych
30.12.2016
Oleksa Stasevych
30.12.2016
Rozalia Graboń
My great-grandfather Józef Graboń was born on 17th July 1913. My great-grandmother Rozalia was born on 8th February 1916...
Poland
Second World War
Jakub Gomółka
11.03.2016
Jakub Gomółka
11.03.2016
Stefania Jasińska
Stefania Jasińska (née Kramarczyk) was born on 26th December 1926 in Osiek, Poland. In 1941, she was taken to Germany to...
deportation
forced labour
Germany
Oświęcim
Poland
Second World War
transportation
Aleksandra Płonka
20.02.2016
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...
Belgium
France
Germany
Second World War
soldier
Philipp Jüsten
17.02.2016
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...
military service
Poland
resettlement
Second World War
Służba Polsce (SP)
Barbara Boba
15.02.2016
Barbara Boba
15.02.2016
Meeting with Mrs. Zofia Posmysz
Meeting of the participants of the History begins in the family project with Mrs. Zofia Posmyzh, former prisoner of the ...
Nazi
Oświęcim
Oleksa Stasevych
14.02.2016
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...
East Prussia
escape
Lyck
Second World War
Helena Pünjer
09.02.2016
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...
First World War
Poland
Grzegorz Rusek
09.02.2016
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...
family memory
Nazi occupation
Poland
Second World War
Dominika Pituła
08.02.2016
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...
famine
Jewish people
Nazi
orphanage
Second World War
Ukraine
Yulia Levytska
07.02.2016
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...
Armia Krajowa
Podhale shooters
Poland
Second World War
Tatra shooters
Trzebinia
Jakub Kamieniarz
06.02.2016
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...
Perehinske
Second World War
Ukraine
Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)
Roman Zvarych
06.02.2016
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...
Lesser Poland
Oświęcim
Pogorzyce
Poland
Russians
Second World War
Łukasz Kowalski
06.02.2016
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...
diaries
Kryvyi Rih
Second World War
Ukraine
Valeriia Pavlish
06.02.2016
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...
Bessarabia
Eastern Front
military service
Novoselivka
Odesa
Poland
Romanian Army
Second World War
Ukraine
Serhii Zalevskyi
02.02.2016
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 ...
forced labour
Germany
Katowice
Kielce
Nazi
Oświęcim
Second World War
Silesia
Paulina Bożyk
01.02.2016
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 ...
Second World War
Ukraine
Ksenia Voitiuk
31.01.2016
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. ...
Donbas
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Second World War
Stalino
Suniava
Lilia Trubka
23.01.2016
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...
Armia Krajowa
bauers
forced labour
Poland
Red Army
Second World War
Aga Kawczak
18.01.2016
Aga Kawczak
18.01.2016
Lidiya Zubanenko
Lidiya was born on February 12, 1927, in the village Lukshyno, Smolensk region (Russia). In 1935 she went to school. ...
Pishchanka
Second World War
Ukraine
Olia Vasilets
28.10.2015
Olia Vasilets
28.10.2015
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