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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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