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Anastasiya Kaputinskaya and family

Anastasiya Kapustinskaya

Yad Vashem has granted the title Righteous Among the Nations to several thousand people in ...

Mikhail Zemlyak

Before World War II our family lived in the small town (shtetl) of Lyubar, located ...

Zoya Nikiforovich

I was saved by Matryona Ivanovna Adamovich. When the war began, I lived in a ...

Riva Valitskaya

There was a well, a big deep pit without any water in it, located on ...

Eva Gladkaya

Before the war, our family lived in the small town of Baranovka in the Zhitomir ...

Mikhail Korobov

When the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 started, my father, Morduch Isaakovich Korobov, and my ...

Vladimir Kovach

I served on a submarine depot ship when the war broke out. The passenger liner ...

Fridrikh Rabinovich

I was ten when the Great Patriotic War began. Very alarming news came from the ...

Leonard Spektor

In 1931, my father’s family, which included Grandfather Tzal, Grandmother Shlima, Uncle Abraham, and my ...

Stella Sokolovskaya

My paternal grandmother, Dvoira Sokolovskaya, had nine children—six boys and three girls. The accompanying photo ...

Maria Rivkind

My father, Yefim Moiseyevich Zhidovetskiy, was born in Berdichev in 1912. He had a brother, ...

Lev Pikus

Before the war my grandfather, Iosif Shmuel Pikus, his wife, and their three children (it ...

David Chernyahovskiy

Before the war our family lived in Kiev. When the war started and before the ...

Sofia Ruderman

My family’s evacuation during the first days of the Great Patriotic War was probably not ...

Nata Andinysh

My mother, Dora Solomonovna Zuperman, was born in Minsk in 1916. Before the war, she ...

Valentina Margolina

Valentina Isaakovna Margolina was born in spring 1932 in Minsk at the home of her ...

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