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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
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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
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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
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Lev Shlyakhter: Family
My mother was a woman from Kirovsk, Vyatsk. She worked as a typewriter; she talked on the phone and so on. That’s that.
And what was your sister’s name?
Mine? I don’t have a …
Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Family, Lev Shlyakhter
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Lev Shlyakhter: Food, candies
Stoves were thrown away, stove... We had these iron heaters, tin heaters that had chimneys running out through the window.
Potbelly stoves, yes?
Such potbelly stoves. If we had potatoes, there was …
Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Svetlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno
Categories: Family, Lev Shlyakhter
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Leonida Makhon: Life during the Polish times (before the War)
Did you mother tell you about the Polish times? How did they live at that time?
Well, she told me that at… that it was better times than … She told me that she had to work, so when you …
Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ имени Я. Купалы
Categories: Family, Leonida Makhon
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Lev Shlyakhter: Family education
What family principles did you have? What did your parents teach you? What did they forbid? What did they permit?
I was left without parents when I was 10! I had mother.
Still you did have mother? …
Researcher: Natalia Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava
Categories: Family, Lev Shlyakhter
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Lubou Veramei: About food storage
I also would like to ask you where did you keep food, meat, for example? You see, now we have fridges, and what about that times?
Meat? We sticked a pig, salted the meat and put into the barrel. …
Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Family, Lubou Veramej
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Lubou Veramei: About the daily diet
Please tell me, what kind of dishes were on the table? What do you remember?
There were… For the first course there was a soup, cabbage soup, beetroot soup, in summer there was nettle soup. …
Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Family, Lubou Veramej
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Lubou Veramei: About the economy
Please tell me what did the village look like? What did the houses and roads look like?
The roads were made of cobblestone. The roads were bad. The houses were thatch-roofed. Thatch. Thatch sheaves. …
Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Family, Lubou Veramej
