Those post-war days were terrible in the Western Ukraine. Nor was it well known who and why anyone would be arrested
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Nadija Andrijivna Baranovska was born on October 18, 1933 in the village of Verba in Western Ukraine in the then interwar Poland. She attended elementary school in Verba and then joined the Business and Economics Institute in Lviv. Her further studies were completed in 1953 when she was arrested by the KGB and sentenced to ten years in Rivne prison. The reason for the arrest is still unknown to her, but she was probably reported by a friend because of anti-Soviet verses or a letter written in German. After her conviction, she was taken to the Irkutsk region to a Soviet labour camp (Gulag) in Tajshet, where she cut down and processed wood. In 1955 she was released at the amnesty and subsequently allowed her to graduate from the Institute of Business and Economics in Lviv. After graduation she got married and worked in the Volyn region in the Rožyšče village. He currently lives in Verba, Rivne region in the Western Ukraine.
