World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted : Testimonies from Ukraine.

Intro -- Contents -- Vakhtang Kipiani: The Truth About War -- Romko Malko: My Family's War Began in 1939 -- Oleh Kotsarev: How My Great-Grandfather Helped Establish the Third Reich in Kharkiv -- Pavlo Solodko: Over the Course of Their Wartime Separation, My Grandma and Grandpa Wrote Two Hundred and Fifty Letters to One Another -- Dmytro Krapyvenko: "The Infantry Had Deserted Us, but We Had Already Taken Our Positions, So We Weren't about to Retreat." -- Taras Shamaida: A German Tried Persuading My Grandfather to Marry His Daughter-So That the Red Army Wouldn't Touch Her -- Serhii Taran: "One Grandfather Went to Fight in Bessarabia in 1940, While the Other Joined Stepan Bandera's Insurgent Army." -- Taras Antypovych: A Life Bought with Milk and Cheese -- Oleh Pokalchuk: "The Officer Showed My Mother HowGermany Planned to Expand Its Lebensraum." -- Iryna Slavinska: They Used Girls to Help "Get the German Tongues" or Obtain Information. -- Elina Slobodianiuk: A Wartime Fairytale: "Cinderella? That's My Grandma." -- Sevhil Musaieva: My Crimea: "They Can't Really Want to Take Our Homeland Again, Can They?" -- Ihor Shchupak: Why a Nazi Officer's Daughter Would VisitUkraine to Investigate Her Father's past Crimes -- Oleksandr Zinchenko: Petro Movchan, a Man Who Won Us the War -- Sviatoslav Lypovetskyi: "The Most Terrifying Moment Was When They Bombed Their Own Artillery" -- Valentyn Stetsiuk: War, Occupation, and Evacuation -- Eleonora Koval: A Potato on a Tree: Happy New Year 1942! -- Yurii Kolomyiets: War Has Broken Out! Alas, War Has Broken Out! -- Anastasia Lebid: When Bolshevik Rule Was First Installed, It Was Initially Quite Benign. -- Nataliia Popovych (Natalka Talanchuk-Hrebinska): "Oh Mama, Life Is So Hard without You …".

Oles Kulchynskyi: As She Watched the News Years Later, My Grandma Used to Say, "I'm Stupid for Not Having Grabbed a Revolver after the War!" -- Stepan Semeniuk: Seventy-Nine Days in a Death Cell -- Yevhen Klimakin: "My Grandfather Was in the SS." "And Mine Was Killed in Auschwitz." -- Volodymyr Parkhomenko: Surviving Fire and Water: My Father, Who Escaped Bombing and Drowning in the Dnipro -- Boris Artemov: The Two Lives and One Victory of Yukhym Eisenberg -- Danuta Kostura: "My Father Carried His Rifle in the Red Armythe Way He Had Learned to in the Galician Division of the German Armed Forces." -- Maria Matios: Peace, War, and People -- Dmytro Stembkovskyi: "My Grandpa Was in the Underground Resistance in Kyiv and Blew up a Dnipro River Bridge." -- Ihor Lubkivskyi: My Grandfather Fought in Both the First and Second World War -- Iryna Yatsyshyn: "Many Families Were Deported to Siberia. Some People Were Punished by Their Own Families for Their Alleged Cooperation with the NKVD." -- Volodymyr Ushenko: Three Stories about My Family: An Officer, a Partisan, and a Murdered Teacher -- Liudmyla Taran: Vasyl Taran - "How I Made It through the War" -- Eduard Zub: The German Attack Wasn't Unexpected: "We All Knew That There Would Be a War. How Did Stalin Not Know?" -- Vladyslav Faraponov: My Family's War: Their Unheard Memories and Their Heroic Deeds Have Now Been Uncovered. -- Bohdan Ivchenko: The History of Victory Day in the Soviet Union (1947 - 1965) -- Contributing Authors.

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