Before war

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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

  • 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

  • Evdokiya Kolokolnikova: About family

    I was born in village Bolshoye Selo. There were five collective farms there. It was such a big village! My father was a Belarusian. He came from Magilyov Oblast. His mother died and their father …

    Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Family, Evdokiya Kolokolnikova

  • Galina Ivaschenko: Studies at School

    I finished three forms of Belarusian school. I attended school, finished three forms. When I came to Moscow adjacent area, I started the forth form. I studied weakly for the first half year. What I …

    Researcher: Natalya Ivaschenko, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, KseniyaAdasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: School, Galina Ivaschenko

  • Mikhail Pratsukevich: Pre-war economy

    Mikhail Ivanavich, how did your family live in the Polish times?

    Well, we sweated, worked all the time.

    Who were your parents? Did they fall into the category of the wealthy, the middle or the …

    Categories: Family, Mikhail Pratsukevich

  • Antоnina Radzetskaya: About school

    What city did you go to school in?

    Well, over there, in Smolensk region, in Krasnaznamya.

    How many forms did you complete in school?

    Four. I completed four forms. Later on we moved away because we …

    Categories: School, Antonina Radzetskaya

  • Vladzimir Prashleutos: Parents

    My father was a Lithuanian, my mother was a local. Father came here in 1934. Mother lived permanently here. My mother could speak the Jewish language.

    Where did she learn it?

    When she was twelve …

    Categories: Parents, Vladzimir Prashleutos

  • Ideya Belskaya: Family relations

    I was thirteen when the war began. Who we were at this age… But now when someone is thirteen he is a complete child, a spoiled brat. A doll. Well. But at that time we already… for …

    Categories: Family, Ideya Belskaya

  • Ideya Belskaya: About father

    My father was a commandant of the Red Army. And who was he when he started his adult life? He was a swineherd. He worked for a land lord in village Ligaty near Kobrin, Brest Oblast. You see. Father …

    Categories: Parents, Ideya Belskaya

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