Tag Archives: Lviv

20.10.2020
Stepan Horechyi

Life story of a political prisoner of the Soviet totalitarian regime, who passed through 10 years of prison labour camps.

23.03.2018
Stefaniya Duts

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?!

20.03.2018
Stanisław Baszowiecki

My grandfather speaks about his life, the main focus is put on the emigration from Lviv to the Polish Recovered Territories.

06.09.2017
Historical quest "Lviv on the map of memory about the Second World War"

The history of Lviv during World War II can be discovered interactively. Experts have developed a unique quest and youth from Germany, Poland and Ukraine have had a chance to run it. The competition, both academic and athletic in nature, took place for the second year in a row (April 2016, July 2017) as part of an international project “History begins in the family”.

15.07.2017
Youth encounter in Lviv

Photos from the Lviv encounter on 3-9 July 2017 of the History begins in the family youth international project 2017-2018.

Meeting with Stepan Horechyi

On 7th July 2017 participants met with Mr. Stepan Horechyi, who was an OUN activis in times of the WW2. After the end of the war he was imprisoned to the Soviet GULAG, he took part in the Norilsk uprising in 1953.

17.03.2016
Yaroslava Melnychuk (Polyuha)

She was born on July 17th, 1929, in the city of Lviv. She received her primary education at ‘Ridna Shkola’ named after Leo I of Galicia.