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2015 - 2016 International youth project “History begins in the family...”Oldau
Germany
23-29 August 2015
Oświęcim
Poland
23-30 October 2015
Lviv
Ukraine
19-25 March 2016
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2017 - 2018 International youth project “History begins in the family...”Lviv
Ukraine
03-09 July 2017
Oświęcim
Poland
05-11 November 2017
Oldau
Germany
18-24 March 2018
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2020 International youth project “History begins in the family: Dialogue of Generations”2020
Online programme
05-05 August 2020
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Family stories
The story of my great-grandmother taught me how important faith in people is.
“Get out of here!” For the journey from Osiek to Grojec we were given one carriage for two families. We weren’t allowed to take anything with us. My brother Grzegorz arrived from Kęty and told me to t...
In August 1943 you were conscripted to the Reichsarbeitsdienst(labour service). What was the course of events? I had completed the last year at the town’s school, which was turned into a grammar schoo...
Memories of the past Interview with Józef Boba I am 83 years old. I was born in Polanka. My parents’ names were Franciszka and Jan. And your name is Józef Boba. My name is Józef Boba. I remember the w...
I interviewed my grandfather who escaped from East Prussia to West Germany. He told me about his memories of the time before the war and also his experiences in the beginning of the escape.
My interview with Krystyna Środa about life in the countryside during World War II and her childhood memories.
Zofia Listosz was born in 1951, after the end of the war. In the interview, she spoke about the difficult life under the occupation, which her family and her dearest experienced. She also spoke about ...
Pavlo Levytskyi tells about the shooting of Jewish people in his village, his childhood during the World War II and his life in the orphanage.
I remember the moment we passed from the Russian to the German side, because the Germans had taken part of Poland as well. It was in Przemyśl.
The war killed and scattered many Ukrainians all over the world among whom the relatives of Mrs. Dariia Zavoiska appeared to be.
An interview with my grandmother Emilia, my closest relative who can remember the war and tell me about it.
Mykola Pavlish wrote a story of his life in five school notebooks. His parents found these diaries in the old grandfather's office. Stories, written by grandfather in his notebooks, are interesting an...
Volodymyr Zalevskyi tells his grandfather’s story, who took part in the Great Patriotic War, where he was wounded.
For obvious reasons, you cannot remember the war yourself, but according to our family stories you are able to tell me about the fates of your parents. Let’s begin with your mother – what can yo...
He worked on a farm at the beginning of the war. Some of his fellow farm workers and him were once sent to the exhibition of National Economy. The exhibition took place in Moscow, which was the capita...
Like almost every young person those days, my mom was taken in 1943 from Kyiv to Germany. She was only 19 years old back then. They also took her sister with them. My mother’s sister, that is my aunt,...
My name is Zofia Raj, I was born in 1950. My parents told me what they had experienced during the war, at least everything they knew for sure. Did people want to escape from here? Were they afra...
Lidiya was born in 1927 in the village Lukshyno, Smolensk region (Russia). She witnessed war since 1942. In 1966 Lidiya moved together with her family to the village Pishchanka, Dnipropetrovsk region....
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...