• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29251
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the woman who was born in Lviv and remembers the interwar period of city life. She describes in detail her family and neighbours whom she recalls very well and compares the interpersonal relationships of that time with the current ones all the time. In the conversation, there are many accounts of the criminal past of the neighbourhood, the postwar famine in the city, Holocaust, and interethnic contacts. The interviewee recalls the first residence of their family, the story of moving to a new place and further changes in the welfare arrangements (bringing water, gas and ele...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29252
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

A conversation with the resident of Pidzamche, whose parents moved to Lviv after World War II. The woman was born in the family of a military man and lived on Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street before moving to the current apartment. She describes the living conditions of the family when she was a child, happily recalls friends, colleagues and neighbours, with whom they maintained good relationships, and emphasizes that people used to treat each other in a better way than they do now. In the interview, the woman recalls the common routes to the kindergarten and school and tells about her school fri...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29253
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the inborn citizen of Lviv who was born on Klepariv street in 1935 but now resides in Pidzamche. Moving to the new place is connected to the creation of the ghetto. The woman recalls with horror the war and murders she witnessed as a child. The interviewee describes in detail the history of the family, her childhood and youth when she was compelled to leave school and seek employment. The woman recalls neighbours and incredible impressions from her first visit to opera. During the conversation, the woman emphasizes several times the tough living conditions in a small apart...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29254
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Volynska street born in Lviv. Her parents moved to Lviv from Kharkiv after the war and bought an apartment from the Poles. The woman describes in detail the history of her family and shares childhood memories of life in Rohatka. Besides memories of her family, the woman eagerly tells about neighbours, especially the friend of her grandmother and the woman who worked in the pharmacy and happily reached out to help. Despite the bad reputation of Rohatka, the woman recalls it with warmth and pleasure. In addition to the peculiarities of the local landscape (th...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29255
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Zavodska street who lived all her life in Pidzamche. Her parents moved to Lviv during World War II and she was the youngest child in a large family residing in a one-room apartment. The woman briefly answers questions about the life of her family, peculiarities of work and pastime. The woman spent most of her childhood in the yard of their house and at home and also helped her mother who worked as a janitor. She recalls Pidzamche of that time as an industrial area, as she was living next to the plant “Bil'shovyk” and Lviv factory of radio-electronic medical...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29256
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

The interviewee was born in 1932 and moved to Lviv after World War II in search of employment. In 1955 he started working at the Radio-Repair Plant of Lviv, a state enterprise of the Ministry of Defense. The man unwillingly shares the details of the specifics of work on the secret “closed” plant, execution of the plan, payments, the atmosphere in the workforce, pastime, and briefly describes the challenges of the postwar period, difficulties people faced at that time, getting an apartment. The conversation is almost entirely built on the question-answer principle. Recorded on 31st July 2012...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29257
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with a woman whose parents moved to Lviv after World War II. They first lived in the area of Bohdanivka and then moved to Pidzamche. The woman describes in detail the life of her family, recalls friendly relationships with neighbours and how they spent evenings together playing games, communicating and watching TV, and describes the course of the major renovation of the house. She compared the postwar Lviv to today's one and points to the changes in the attitude of people to space, which are taking place now. The interviewee also points to trust and support that are becoming le...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29258
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Pidzamche who used to work at the Lviv factory of radio-electronic medical equipment. The man was born in Gorky after World War II; his parents moved to Lviv when he was one year old. The interviewee recalls his childhood, schooling, common routes, and favorite places (some of these no longer exist). The conversation has many interesting details about welfare, interpersonal relationships, organization of the space of an apartment and a house, peculiarities of spending leisure time during the 1950s and 1960s. The man is keen on history and retells interestin...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29259
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

This was an interview with a pensioner, a former educator at the city kindergarten. The woman is not an inborn Lviv citizen and comes from the small village of Ternopil (not Lviv) region. She describes in detail the history of the family, gives biographical information on her education and professional development. In the first part of the conversation, the interviewee focuses entirely on her work as a teacher in a village and starts talking about postwar Lviv and the everyday life of the citizens some time later. The woman describes in detail the acquaintance and relationships with her hus...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29260
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

The interview with the woman who was born in the Chernihiv region; her parents moved to Lviv when she was three months old. They first lived in an abandoned house with no windows, then – moved to the nearby apartment. The key topic of the conversation was welfare after World War II. The interviewee recalls her parents, especially the life of her mother in the new apartment in Lviv, tells about the square with a marketplace that defined the life of the surrounding houses. She underlines that life after the war was difficult but people supported each other and were much more open. Recorded on...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29261
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the inborn resident of Pidzamche who now lives in another part of the city. The man tells about the interwar period when he attended the Polish school, as well as the periods of Soviet and German occupation. He tells in detail about his neighbours, about how children spent their leisure time, about his relationships and friendship with colleagues. much of the conversation is devoted to the innovations the man invented and the peculiarities of his professional life as a technician and mechanic. The interview has lots of interesting and hilarious moments from the life of eve...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29262
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the woman who was born and still lives in Zamarstyniv area. For a longer time, she had been working as a tailor of the women’s wedding dresses. The conversation started with the memories of her large family and her father, stonemason. The woman gives a detailed description of her street and the surrounding area: the fruit part, Poltva river, the school, the bakery. She recalls the peculiarities of religious life in the 1950s and 1960s, ways to spend leisure time (taking walks, watching movies and theatre performances), relationships with neighbours. Much of the conversatio...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29263
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Rohatka whose house was situated next to the winery “Moldvinprom”. Her father who worked as a driver of the shop owner received the apartment, and now the fourth generation is residing here. The woman tells in detail the history of her family before and after the war, recalls their life during various regimes, and the oppressions her maternal relatives went through. The interviewee graduated from the medical school and worked all her life in the pharmacy near the plant “Almazinstrument”. Besides the description of everyday life, the woman tells about neighb...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29264
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the inborn resident of Lviv who used to work at the sports complex SKA. The woman tells the history of her family (her parents come from Lviv region), describes relationships with neighbours, ways to spend leisure time (walks around the city, dancing, child games), the experience of work, and the realities of the city life in the 1950s and 1960s. She recalls the arrangement of the apartment, repairs and restoration, and tells about her house, street and neighbourhood, common routes she took. During the conversation, the woman showed and referred to the family photo album. ...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29265
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Pidzamche who worked all his life as a driver. The man comes from a village in Ternopil region and moved to his aunt in Lviv in 1947. He gives a general description of places where he lived (the aunt’s, the wife’s and the new apartments) without going into much detail, recalls social and welfare challenges peculiar to postwar Lviv, tells about the way to spend leisure time. The interviewee devotes most attention to the comparison of the everyday life of that time and today. Recorded on 5th July 2012 in the yard next to the interviewee’s home. The interviewe...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29266
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the resident of Zamarstyniv area, a former employee of one of the educational institutions in Lviv. The woman recalls prewar Lviv, briefly tells about the war and the arrival of Soviet troops, describes her street and neighbours, returns to the topic of language several times when discussing the political changes. Another woman, a relative and neighbour of the interviewee, is present during the conversation and complements the story or helps to recall some facts from time to time. Sometimes the speech of the interviewee drops (due to her age and health), and it is not alwa...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29267
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with the inborn resident of Zamarstyniv area who graduated from the University of Economics and worked in a research laboratory. Her house had been destroyed during World War II, and later her parents built a new one. The woman describes the welfare and everyday life of her family, neighbourhood, city, region, religious and cultural traditions peculiar to Lviv of that time. The conversation goes about the process of building neighbourhoods and one’s own house, mutual help and trust among neighbours, and relationships between representatives of various ethnic groups, in the scho...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29268
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with a former nurse of Lviv Tuberculosis Hospital, born in Lviv. The woman starts her story with an autobiographical notice. When she was a child, she traded in the market to help her mother. Then, she was sentenced for profiteering and sent to jail, later – transferred to Ural. She received the education of a nurse there and returned to Lviv, where she could find work for a longer time. The woman describes in detail her professional development from the ward to an operating room nurse. In the conversation, she also describes in detail the lodging, welfare, interior, social con...

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29269
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

One more interview with the former nurse of Lviv Tuberculosis Hospital, born in Lviv, that expands on the topics the interviewee mentioned in the previous conversation. Recorded on 19th July 2012 at the Center for Urban History. The interviewers – Andriy Bondarenko and Natalia Otrishchenko.

• Center for Urban History of East Central Europe
• 29270
• English, Ukrainian
• Updated 2 years ago

An interview with a woman, a former employee of the plant “Mikroprylad” and leather goods factory. The woman lost her mother at an early age and lived under guardianship since she was 12 till she turned 16. Another dear person was her grandmother who worked as a janitor in their house. The interviewee tells about the empty apartments in their house that after the war were occupied mostly by people coming from the region, underlines good and trusting relationships between the neighbours. She mostly gives short answers but tells several interesting stories from the postwar past. Towards the e...