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The winter of 1941-1942 was cold and our neighbors the Meshkovskys
helped us to escape from death by starvation. They were not Jewish. They
sold or exchanged our things for food in villages 50-80 km outside the
city. It was still possible while the Germans had not robbed the farmers
down to their last straw. The Germans then took everything from them-
vegetables, bread, pigs, and birds. I remember that the in addition to the
Meshkovskys, other neighboring women sold and exchanged our things.
The children of the neighbors gathered empty metal cans around the
German camp and brought them to us. Grandfather soldered them and the
neighbor children sold our mugs at the market.
helped us to escape from death by starvation. They were not Jewish. They
sold or exchanged our things for food in villages 50-80 km outside the
city. It was still possible while the Germans had not robbed the farmers
down to their last straw. The Germans then took everything from them-
vegetables, bread, pigs, and birds. I remember that the in addition to the
Meshkovskys, other neighboring women sold and exchanged our things.
The children of the neighbors gathered empty metal cans around the
German camp and brought them to us. Grandfather soldered them and the
neighbor children sold our mugs at the market.
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Vitebsk
Belarus
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emma nikonova
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