Surviving total war in Kherson Region, Ukraine in 1941 - 1945
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2013

The following work started from the early years of my childhood, when my greatgrandmother, Natalia Porfirievna Yagnenko, told me many fascinating stories from the Great Patriotic War, the German occupation of our city, and how she survived that period with her family.While drinking tea and eating the candy and cookies she always offered me, the child's imagination did not have much room to picture horrors and realities of the war, and I enjoyed her stories from the perspective of a young boy, si