-My great-grandfather Pavel Ivanovich Krivaltsevich was 23 when the war began. He left his wife and children and joined partisans. He was not far from his village but visited his family only several times because the struggle against the fascists was very hard at that time. Those families who helped partisans could be shot. The partisan detachment where my great-grandfather struggled defended the settlements of Skovshin, Ossovo, Zabrodye, Pissarevichi.
In 1942 twelve partisans, including my great-grandfather, were captured. They were brought to the fascists’ chief commandant’s office in Starobin. After being in prison for sev
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