Testimonies – Interwar Borderlands

Describes an event in 1936 where he received an award at a scouting jamboree.

Genowefa sings a wartime song that her father used to sing.

Describing the different ethnic groups that lived in Kolomya.

Describes how his school was multi-ethnic before WWII, and how everyone basically got along.

This is the life story of Ludwik Cytera as discovered and written up by his grandson Christopher Cytera.

Dioniza describes how the school children attended services at the Ukrainian church, until the Catholic church was built and a priest arrived in the village.

Irene names all the neighbours that lived on the Military Settlement of Radziwiłłów.

Describing how the Poles and Belorussians co-existed in that area, then the Russian invasion and the day of deportation.

Czeslaw describes what life was like when the Osada was first set up, and how his father had to live in the initial stages.

Miecyzslaw speaks of his youth in Poland, and how he learned to swim and fish in a neighbourhood swimming hole.

Mieczyslaw describes a typical hunting expedition in the forests near his home.

Stefan describes how the schools were set up in his area. He also discusses home life and how his father provided a good life for them.

Krystyna describes the way Ukrainian was taught to boys but not to girls in grade school, and describes how the Poles and Ukrainians lived very well together.

A typed/condensed version of my Grandfather's original handwritten Memoir