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Cheslava Gomonchuk: About the Gipsies
There were such oaks between Putrishki and Yaloushchyna. They had a dwelling there. They stole hens. My elder sister, I was an eighth child in the family, gave to birth in 1948. There were 2 …
Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Residence and weekdays, Cheslava Gomonchuk
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Cheslava Gomonchuk: Partisans
I heard the sounds, voices, cries.
The people filled up with ground, the Germans stopped those who were going along the road, with the shovel… later they let them go, and they even kicked …
Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Cheslava Gomonchuk
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Cheslava Gomonchuk: Memories about the War
My relatives were engaged into communication with partisans. When they had heard about something, they transmitted it to them. Like a scout-dog.
When my brother was released from the concentration …
Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Cheslava Gomonchuk
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Cheslava Gomonchuk: War burial dumping in Putrishky
There is burial dumping in the forest. There was a field close to it, we were self-employed farmers. We had a lot of land. I was a teenager then, I used to go to the field. There were oats there. …
Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Cheslava Gomonchuk
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Viktor Kolokolnikov: School before the war
And I studied for five years in Minsk. About five years. And in 1939 when the liberation of Western Belarus started… my father was a part of the military unit that was liberating the city of …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: School, Viktor Kolokolnikov
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Viktor Kolokolnikov: Defectors
During the war there were not only Bolsheviks and partisans. There were defectors there. Though, they were not as many as partisans. If there was an army of partisans in number of three hundred …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Mode of life, Viktor Kolokolnikov
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Viktor Kolokolnikov: First childhood memory
Oh, frankly speaking, Kseniya Aleksandrovna, these are constant moves. Luggage, bags, large suitcases, temporary flats. Frankly speaking, you know, we were half-starved, almost half-starved. Frankly …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: First childhood memory, Viktor Kolokolnikov
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Mikhail Kripets: About soltys
You know I … me too to Germany, they wanted me to go to Germany. We were twelve of people. My father went to the soltys and gave a good going-over to him. He told, «Do you think I fought …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Aadsik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: About the captives
We had two military officers left. One lived at the house where the handicapped lived, the other one lived at the Kuleshs’ place, one stayed at the Byalundziya’s place. Well, when the …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Wartime, Mikhail Kripets
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Mikhail Kripets: About father
Well, at first my father was a bachelor. They were three of Kryptsy, in 1917 they went together with Lenin. My father told me how it had happened. So during the day they used to be at the bog land, …
Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Parents, Mikhail Kripets
