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

  • 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

  • Tatiana Nikolayeva: About war

    Nothing was left. The village had been burnt. A German, Willis… We knew the manes of all the Germans. They came, changed each other. Some of them came to the front; some of them were …

    Researcher: Aleksej Zagidulin, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Wartime, Tatyana Nikolayeva

  • Alla Gajdis: About mass execution during the War

    They took soldiers to be shot. After they were taken over there, a hole was dug, there were such a hill, forest and such a ditch, a drain around it, when the people were walking the ground was …

    Researcher: Aleksej Zagidulin,Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Wartime, Alla Gajdis

  • Alla Gajdis: About the War

    Mother told me that I was lying on the swaddling cloth mother-naked (1941), a German came up to me and gave a tickle to my belly.

    I remember several episodes.

    German gendarmes were horrible people. …

    Researcher: Aleksej Zagidulin,Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Wartime, Alla Gajdis

  • Orenburg-Borisov-Moskva

    How long did it take you to get from Orenburg to Borisov?

    My mother told me it took 14 days. Not to Borisov, but to Moscow. We wanted to stay in Moscow, but they built barracks for the evacuees. …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Wartime, Ira Motolyga

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