My brother was ten years old, he had to carry bricks under a mountain; he kept falling, he kept getting up and he was crying, so the Germans wanted to kill him because of that
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Oleksandra Arsentivna Adamčuk was born on May 5th, 1937 in the city of Dubno in the Rivno Oblast in the then Poland. Her father had been working as a shoemaker, her mother was a housewife, and apart from Oleksandra Arsentivna they had three more children. From 1939 to 1941, the witness lived through Soviet occupation of Rivno Oblast and also the Nazi occupation after June 22nd, 1941. In 1942, Oleksandra Arsentivna’s family had been transferred to a camp on German territory, to a place the witness couldn’t identify. Their parents were working in an aircraft parts factory while the children were spending their days in the barracks. After the war, the family got back to Ukraine. Later, the witness got married and had been working in a hospital and in a clothing factory. In 2019, she has been living in the city of Dubno in West Ukraine.
