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“Zatlomdaon.?I” fed the chickens and collected their eggs, and sometimes

“LeItihbayal?ts”oI took the sheep out to pasture. He told his fellow villagers
was his nephew, his sister’s son, and that my mother had
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“Bustoyloduie’rres ownelryefoauprptreoeanc!h” iLnegiboyuprrovitlelastgeed,.and soon enough, our
farm became the battlefront. e Germans lost no time. ey

“Yeso,vIekrtnooowk, obuurt dhuoruisneg, stehteawllatrhIelfeaarrmneadnaimloatlasbforeuet tnoavroigaamtining the
and leeladdsi,nagntdroionpstsa, lalendd tthheeirmhiloitrasreys cinomthmeanbadrnhsa,sidnrapfltaecde mofe the
to Aansaieml aBlsiewlshkoi’sh2 atdroboepesn,” tZhaelrme abnefoexrep.laIineedd.w“Ii’tmh Ijoviannionvg atnhde his
rescfuaemfiolyrcteos haenaedairnbgytvoilBlaegreli,nb.u”t something aroused the villagers’

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a Pqouliesshtiocnitsizaebno!”utLmeieb.yWeexrcelailmized.th“aTtatkheeyosusypoeucrteduntihfaotrmI was
andJejowinishth, aencdroIwvadnsoovnintshtreuscttreedetms.eWtoitrhunalltoththe edfiosorerdsteranadndhide
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scarwedavoefdomureoiwnnthsehadiro, wansd, obnelgyadnartoinwg htoirslearrvoeuinndTaansdhkdeanntc3.eIwf ith
I domn’et.j‘oinethwearmiisliotavreyr,!theey’Gll ecramll amnes ha adveeselortset!r…I saweay’lol nugseline

of Russian tanks passing by right near here!’”

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was menilissstemd einttoooa.cSohmebaatlwunaiyt,stoingesitshteerdwtithhastoomnelyofIthtaekceamcaprme eomf hbeerrs,,and
and wwahseknilelevderduIriwngasbna’tttlaetinhKoomeneigasnbdergs.omeone else was looking after
3 her, sThasehrkefnuts-ecdaptiotapl olafyUwzbietkhisatanny, ionftherRtuossyisananhodmjuesftrosnatt. lToeonks ing

of thoouutsaonfdtshoef wJeiwnsdoflewd, wthaeirteining tfhoer smeceontod rweotruldrnw.”ar, thus escaping
death.