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Steve's History Website

my family's journey through time

Rena's Memories

Table of Contents

People and Places

Version History

Viewing with a Cell Phone

Nazi in Ukraine

Part 1 (Early Memories)

Part 2 (Growing Up)

Springtime in Kiev

Summertime/ Parents Friends

Music & Culture

Part 3 (Travel)

Resorts for Kid's

Chernigov, Leningrad, Grandparents

Part 4 (School)

Part 5 (Health)

Part 6 (Famine and Purges)

Part 7 (Predictions of War)

Calm before the Storm

The First days of War

Our Jewish Friends Evacuate

Operation Barbarossa

Part 9 (The Nazis Occupy Kiev)

Saved from a Time Bomb

Soviet Troops are Captured

The Nazis Enter Kiev

Part 10 (Nazi Occupation Part 1)

Explosions at Lavra

Part 11 (Nazi Occupation Part 2)

Part 12 (Nazi Occupation Part 3)

Nazi Sympathizers, Ostarbeiters, Partisans

Part 13 (Nazi Occupation Part 4)

Surviving the first Winter

Fritz Gieseler, the Black Market and a Special Wool Dress

Part 14 (Nazi Occupation Part 5)

Helping Soviet POWs and Hiding a Jew

Life after the First Winter

Part 15 (The Nazis Retreat)

The Nazis Retreat

Fear of Reprisals / Volksdeutsche

Part 16 (We leave Kiev)

Final Hours in Kiev

Part 17 (Behind Barbed Wire)

Stuck in Sosnovitz

Part 18 (Prague Part 1)

Supporting Ourselves in Prague

School in Prague

Part 19 (Prague Part 2)

Part 20 (The War Draws to a Close)

The Bombing of Prague

The Final Days of War

The Prague Uprising

Part 21 (Soviets in Prague)

Prague under Soviet Occupation

Trouble in Prague

Part 22 (Escape from the Soviets)

Preparing to Leave

Part 23 (Journey to the United States)

From Prague to New York City

Part 24 (First Steps in a New Land)

Getting into the Country

Uncle Leonid & Hunter College

Voice of America

Bobbi in New York City

Introduction

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