"In Germany, they took something from me - because I had a patch in three places - and my mother was told not to touch it. Even the nurse told her not to touch me. They took it from the spine. [That's what] my mother told me later. I was such a small child and they took it from to top of my back to the bottom. And they took mother's blood."
"But how to feed it? Where do you get milk there? You don't have it. And so many children were dying there, that my mother was said, 'I came back and I didn't know whether you are alive or not.' [Mom] worked in a tank factory. The Germans stood there, and they didn't even have a chance to drink water. "
"I was also in one other place. But when I was born, people treated me nicely. My mother worked in a concentration camp, and when I was born, the others treated me nicely, wrapped me up and everything.... They accepted me, saying, "Ukrainische gut, Ukrainische gut".
Lidija Jefremivna Jarostjuk was born on April 15, 1943, in Onsabrück in former Nazi Germany. Her parents came from the Rivne region and during the war period, they were deported to forced labour to Germany. Oksana‘s mother worked in a tank factory, and her father Jefrem stayed elsewhere and worked at the mine. At first, only her father was sent to work in Germany, but because her mother accompanied him, she was included in the transport despite her pregnancy. The witness claims, that after her birth, she stayed in Fürstenau and in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After returning to Ukraine in 1945, Lidija suffered from protracted health problems, but eventually recovered. She worked in the army in the town of Dubno as a stenographer and after graduating from the evening medical school she was employed in the dental department at the polyclinic as a nurse. Currently, she still lives in the city of Dubno in western Ukraine.
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