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  • Lev Shlyakhter: Beginning of the war

    How did you get to know that the war started on the 22nd? Did you hear about it on radio?

    You know what. That happened that on the 22nd of June, there lived people in the neighborhood, their …

    Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Beginning of the war, Lev Shlyakhter

  • Lev Shlyakhter: Nationality

    Do you consider yourself a Jew? I mean the religion. Or the nationality. Do you feel like a Jew or not?

    You know, I can tell you frankly. I was an unbeliever, and my father was an unbeliever, I know …

    Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Holidays and traditions, Lev Shlyakhter

  • Lev Shlyakhter: Clothes

    Where did you get dressed, where did you take clothes?

    Clothes? Somebody bought at the market, wherever. For example, I had clothes; I went to school when my mother was alive.

    You are probably …

    Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: School, Lev Shlyakhter

  • Lev Shlyakhter: Relay flights

    There appeared so called relay flights. Do you know what is passenger capacity of plane «ИЛ-14»?

    No.

    22 passengers and 3 persons of crew.

    Is it like a huge crop-duster or not?

    No, a …

    Researcher: Natalja Ivashchanka, Sviatlana Silava, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Lev Shlyakhter

  • 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

  • Alla Mikhajlova: Soviet time shops

    Please tell me what could you buy at the shop in Berezovka?

    When we came here I stared to work at the general merchandise shop, I had to accept everything, there were clothes, shoes, everything & …

    Researcher: Kseniya Adasik, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Alla Mikhajlova

  • Alla Mikhajlova: Parents

    We managed to move from Vladzivastok during the War. My sister was born in 1937 and I was born in 1939. And about 1942–1943, probably in 1942 we moved from Vladzivastok. We told our father that …

    Researcher: Kseniya Adasik,Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Parents, Alla Mikhajlova

  • Alla Mikhajlova: Movement to Berezovka

    We came here (to Berezovka) to visit our relatives. And the parents started to persuade, so they persuaded us, told us. So me and Andrei (my son) stayed here, he (husband) went back to the Urals. So …

    Researcher: Kseniya Adasik,Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Alla Mikhajlova

  • 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

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