World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted: Testimonies from Ukraine / Vakhtang Kipiani, Zenia Tompkins, Daisy Gibbons, Andreas Umland

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kipiani, Vakhtanh., Author.

Contributor:

Tompkins, Zenia, Translator.

Gibbons, Daisy, Translator.

Umland, Andreas, Editor.

Series:

Ukrainian voices ; Volume 22.

Ukrainian Voices 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

2. Weltkrieg.

Biographien.

Geschichte.

History.

Ukraine.

World War II.

Local Subjects:

2. Weltkrieg.

Biographien.

Geschichte.

History.

Ukraine.

World War II.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2021

Biography/History:

Vakhtang Kipiani, born in Tbilisi in 1971, is a prominent Ukrainian political publicist as well as editor of the popular Kyiv Internet magazine Istorychna Pravda (Historical Truth). As a student in 1990, he was an active participant in the "Revolution on Granite" (so named after the stone in Kyiv's Independence Square), the after-effects of which eventually led to Ukraine's independence in August 1991. After studying history, he worked for several Ukrainian newspapers and television stations and as a lecturer in journalism at the Ukrainian Catholic University. Kipiani's research interests include the illegal press as well as the dissident movement of the Soviet era and manifestations of extremism in today's media. His previous anthologies include The Case of Vasyl Stus (Vivat 2019), on the Soviet trial of the eminent eastern Ukrainian poet, and A Country of Female Descent (Vivat 2021), featuring testimonies of significant 20th-century Ukrainian women.

Summary:

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 “before” and “after.” 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.

Contents:

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.

Other Format:

Print version: Kipiani, Vakhtang World War II, Uncontrived and Unredacted: Testimonies from Ukraine

ISBN:

3-8382-7621-3

OCLC:

1288212673

Publisher Number:

9783838276212