Ukrainian Voices

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783838276212
• Edition: 0

The war separated families, took lives, broke fates... It is very important to know and remember it at any time. Even many decades later, new details, memories, and testimonies appear. This book gathers several fascinating, true family stories written from accounts of parents, grandparents, etc. The authors, whose articles were collected with the help of the popular scientific publication Historical Truth, tell us about the worst war of the 20th century, about the fate of those people whose lives were divided forever into "e;before"e; and "e;after."e; Here we can find first-hand accounts about Ukrainians who fought in various armies, about the lives of deported people, about the fate of people taken to compulsory labor camps, and about the men and women who remain in our memories forever.

Table of contents

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• Contents
• The Truth About War
• My Family’s War Began in 1939
• How My Great-Grandfather Helped Establish the Third Reich in Kharkiv
• Over the Course of Their Wartime Separation, My Grandma and Grandpa Wrote Two Hundred and Fifty Letters to One Another
• “The Infantry Had Deserted Us, but We Had Already Taken Our Positions, So We Weren’t about to Retreat.”
• A German Tried Persuading My Grandfather to Marry His Daughter—So That the Red Army Wouldn’t Touch Her.
• “One Grandfather Went to Fight in Bessarabia in 1940, While the Other Joined Stepan Bandera’s Insurgent Army.”
• A Life Bought with Milk and Cheese
• “The Officer Showed My Mother How Germany Planned to Expand Its Lebensraum.”
• They Used Girls to Help “Get the German Tongues” or Obtain Information.
• A Wartime Fairytale: “Cinderella? That’s My Grandma.”
• My Crimea: “They Can’t Really Want to Take Our Homeland Again, Can They?”
• Why a Nazi Officer’s Daughter Would Visit Ukraine to Investigate Her Father’s past Crimes
• Petro Movchan, a Man Who Won Us the War
• “The Most Terrifying Moment Was When They Bombed Their Own Artillery”
• War, Occupation, and Evacuation
• A Potato on a Tree: Happy New Year 1942!
• War Has Broken Out! Alas, War Has Broken Out!
• When Bolshevik Rule Was First Installed, It Was Initially Quite Benign
• “Oh Mama, Life Is So Hard without You …”
• As She Watched the News Years Later, My Grandma Used to Say, “I’m Stupid for Not Having Grabbed a Revolver after the War!”
• Seventy-Nine Days in a Death Cell
• “My Grandfather Was in the SS.”
• Surviving Fire and Water: My Father, Who Escaped Bombing and Drowning in the Dnipro
• The Two Lives and One Victory of Yukhym Eisenberg
• “My Father Carried His Rifle in the Red Army the Way He Had Learned to in the Galician Division of the German Armed Forces.”
• Peace, War, and People
• “My Grandpa Was in the Underground Resistance in Kyiv and Blew up a Dnipro River Bridge.”
• My Grandfather Fought in Both the First and Second World Wars
• “Many Families Were Deported to Siberia. Some People Were Punished by Their Own Families for Their Alleged Cooperation with the NKVD.“
• Three Stories about My Family: An Officer, a Partisan, and a Murdered Teacher
• “How I Made It through the War”
• The German Attack Wasn’t Unexpected: “We All Knew That There Would Be a War. How Did Stalin Not Know?”
• My Family’s War: Their Unheard Memories and Their Heroic Deeds Have Now Been Uncovered.
• The History of Victory Day in the Soviet Union (1947 – 1965)
• Contributing Authors
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