Table of Contents
The Truth About War Vakhtang Kipiani 9
My Family's War Began in 1939 Romko Malko 12
How My Great-Grandfather Helped Establish the Third Reich in Kharkiv Oleh Kotsarev 19
Over the Course of Their Wartime Separation, My Grandma and Grandpa Wrote Two Hundred and Fifty Letters to One Another Pavlo Solodko 24
"The Infantry Had Deserted Us, but We Had Already Taken Our Positions, So We Weren't about to Retreat." Dmytro Krapyvenko 37
A German Tried Persuading My Grandfather to Marry His Daughter-So That the Red Army Wouldn't Touch Her. Taras Shamaida 41
"One Grandfather Went to Fight in Bessarabia in 1940, While the Other Joined Stepan Bandera's Insurgent Army." Serhii Taran 47
A Life Bought with Milk and Cheese Taras Antypovych 54
"The Officer Showed My Mother How Germany Planned to Expand Its Lebensraum." Oleh Pokalchuk 58
They Used Girls to Help "Get the German Tongues" or Obtain Information. Iryna Slavinska 65
A Wartime Fairytale: "Cinderella? That's My Grandma." Elina Slobodianiuk 73
My Crimea: "They Can't Really Want to Take Our Homeland Again, Can They?" Sevhil Musaieva 76
Why a Nazi Officer's Daughter Would Visit Ukraine to Investigate Her Father's past Crimes Ihor Shchupak 81
Petro Movchan, a Man Who Won Us the War Oleksandr Zinchenko 86
"The Most Terrifying Moment Was When They Bombed Their Own Artillery" Sviatoslav Lypovetskyi 91
War, Occupation, and Evacuation Valentyn Stetsiuk 95
A Potato on a Tree: Happy New Year 1942! Eleonora Koval 111
War Has Broken Out! Alas, War Has Broken Out! Yurii Kolomyiets 114
When Bolshevik Rule Was First Installed, It Was Initially Quite Benign Anastasia Lebid 124
"Oh Mama, Life Is So Hard without You …" Nataliia Popovych (Natalka Talanchuk-Hrebinska) 134
As She Watched the News Years Later, My Grandma Used to Say, "I'm Stupid for Not Having Grabbed a Revolver after the War!" Oles Kulchynskyi 143
Seventy-Nine Days in a Death Cell Stepan Semeniuk 147
"My Grandfather Was in the SS." "And Mine Was Killed in Auschwitz." Yevhen Klimakin 157
Surviving Fire and Water: My Father, Who Escaped Bombing and Drowning in the Dnipro Volodymyr Parkhomenko 170
The Two Lives and One Victory of Yukhym Eisenberg Boris Artemov 178
"My Father Carried His Rifle in the Red Army the Way He Had Learned to in the Galician Division of the German Armed Forces." Danuta Kostura 186
Peace, War, and People Maria Matios 195
"My Grandpa Was in the Underground Resistance in Kyiv and Blew up a Dnipro River Bridge." Dmytro Stembkovskyi 203
My Grandfather Fought in Both the First and Second World Wars Ihor Lubkivskyi 210
"Many Families Were Deported to Siberia. Some People Were Punished by Their Own Families for Their Alleged Cooperation with the NKVD." Iryna Yatsyshyn 219
Three Stories about My Family: An Officer, a Partisan, and a Murdered Teacher Volodymyr Ushenko 229
Vasyl Taran: "How I Made It through the War" Liudmyla Taran 232
The German Attack Wasn't Unexpected: "We All Knew That There Would Be a War. How Did Stalin Not Know?" Eduard Zub 244
My Family's War: Their Unheard Memories and Their Heroic Deeds Have Now Been Uncovered. Vladyslav Earaponov 249
The History of Victory Day in the Soviet Union (1947 - 1965) Bohdan Ivchenko 253
Contributing Authors 261
