During wartime
Foto
-
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
-
Leonida Makhon: About the War
What can you recollect about the War? What do you still keep in your memory?
What do I keep in my memory? Well. Shots only. My grandmother and mother told me «Lie down, don’t stand at …
Researcher: Олег Коляго, старший преподаватель, ГрГУ имени Я. Купалы
Categories: Beginning of the war, Leonida Makhon
-
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
-
End of the War
The war finished, I remember that day very well, I don’t know if that was the day war finished or not when the German captives were passing by and my sister Anka took me by the hand and shouted, …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: End of the war, Ira Motolyga
-
The Germans in Orenburg
And what did the captured Germans do in Orenburg?
They were being led, probably, by the builders or anybody else. They were being led and they were going. And we though, we didn’t know who …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Mode of life, Ira Motolyga
-
The beginning of war
We were getting on well. We lived in plenty. We had a very big house. We lived well. Well, once father came and said, «Basya, don’t say anybody a word, there will be a war».
Did he …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Beginning of the war, Ira Motolyga
-
Evacuation Borisov-Smolensk-Bashkiriya
I forgot to tell you that she was thin; she wore shoe size 42 and was about two meters tall. She was very strong. She was such a village-like grandmother. She mowed with a scythe and reaped the …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Wartime, Ira Motolyga
-
Related to World War II
She said they came to Borisov. She had 6 sisters and brothers. I called in on one sister, she taught a foreign language, and another one taught Russian literature in Smolevichy. She said, «We …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Mode of life, Ira Motolyga
-
Front during World War II
And we left Mordovia for Stalingrad. We were going, frankly speaking, during a month. We spent the entire month on the way there. As we arrived, the Germans were already rounded up at Stalingrad, so …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Wartime, Jakov Kiselev
-
Beginning of the war
It was a deceitful regime. They had been always false to the people. They threw dust in our eyes, pulled the wool over the eyes. This is what is being sung praises, oh! Nobody told the truth in the …
Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы
Categories: Beginning of the war, Jakov Kiselev
