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“Father was arrested and imprisoned in the Zamarstyniv. How didn’t he came under the hot hand to NKVD – it seems there were just so much of them, that NKVD could not "rework" all into "camp dust", as they have taken to talk. Evidently, they shot primarily those to whom they have no doubts. He was arrested on suspicion of the teacher of grammar school where he was a warden. Oh and he came home – the Germans released him.”

“When we were boys we got into the airfield for arms and ammunition. There were brick factories – they were built such as hangars for raw brick. And the Germans have done there any stores, I remember accurately. Because we pulled out from there mainly ammunition. Boys, what do you want here? I don't know how I survived at all, but I was little then. I went to the first class in 44-th, I was seven years old, still the war lasted – it ended when, in the 45-th – I was eight years old. And in mine eight, nine, ten, eleven years there still was a lot of these weapons, you should only have a wish to find it. But boys always have such wish – that's why we looked for it.”

“In 1939 I was liberated for the first time, in 1941 – for the second one, in 1944 – for the third one and in 1991 – for the last one, but that time form everything. I was baptized in Saint’s Antony church. I lived on Pushkina str., now it is Chuprynka str. But then it was Pototsky str. – gymnasium named after Queen Yadvìga, my father was a warden of this building. Now there is a city hospital N5 there, but before war there was a female high school named after Queen Yadvìga. In 1939 when we were liberated by first soviets, we were evicted. They made a hospital there. We were evicted from the building and father was arrested as an enemy of nation. Mother with me, I was three years old, were living in strange places. And so we lived until the second liberation.”