During wartime

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mikhail Kripets: Partisans

    You know the Germans left this place, they left Dakudava. Then the Russian partisans came: one was standing on the right, the other one was standing on the left and they were collecting food, who …

    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

  • Mikhail Kripets: The beginning of the War

    Where were you when the war began?

    At home. I was at home. I was thirteen years old.

    In Polish times we were called the Kryptsavs’ sons, the Bolshevicks’ sons. Me and my brother. And …

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

    Categories: Beginning of the war, Mikhail Kripets

  • Tamara Levchuk: Gangbangs (after the War)

    We had lived for long in Grodno, but my father started to work as a forester in the forestry, so we moved to Putrishki. It was the year of 1955. There was a gangbang organized in Cheschevlyany. They …

    Researcher: Alexei Zagidulin, PhD (Historical Sciences), associated professor at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: End of the war, Residence and weekdays, Tamara Levchuk

  • Evdokiya Kolokolnikova: Memories about the war

    The military commissariat probably couldn’t make provision of military people. In general, they took all the men there. Well, they made the following way: there was one military instructor, so …

    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, Evdokiya Kolokolnikova

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