Ira Motolyga

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Born 8 December,1939

  • Ira about life in Borisov

    Borisov consisted of the two cities – Old Borisov and New Borisov and there was a dam. A regular bus ran, it cost 45 kopecks, one bus ride. I was given the money for one way ride, and there was …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Ira Motolyga

  • Ira Motolyga about the family

    Do you know the circumstances of the death of your father?

    We did not see him. No, we even don’t have a photograph of him. We do not know him.

    Did you receive coupons on behalf of your …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Ira Motolyga

  • Education in the family

    And in general did you have the family principals of upbringing? How you were educated in the childhood? What were you allowed to do and what weren’t you allowed?

    I do not know how we were …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Family, Ira Motolyga

  • Ira Motolyga in Bashkiria

    They treated us well, said my mother, but when we came, mother said, they just had haymaking, they were mowing there. And they, she said, did not know anything, she said, they were sitting in the …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Mode of life, Ira Motolyga

  • Ira Motolyga In Israel

    Later I learned about the programme, the programme was for those under 60 years old and I was under 60 at that time. So I left.

    Weren’t you afraid?

    Of what? We were a group of people.

    And …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Ira Motolyga

  • Technical college in Borisov

    There were just few people who entered the institute. As usual, it has been always not enough of something, sometimes it was not enough of points, or something else. My mother told me to enter the & …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Study and work, Ira Motolyga

  • School in Borisov

    When you went to school boys and girls studied together?

    Together in the first grade. I remember these teachers, they lived in a wooden house, and there was also the school in Borisov.

    Was it a …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Study and work, Ira Motolyga

  • Рarents Ira Motolyga

    What were the names of your mother and father?

    Mother’s name was Basya Konovna Liberman. Father’s name is Shulman Davyd Aronovich.

    How many children did you have in the family?

    Only …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Parents, Ira Motolyga

  • Perestroika

    I think these years were worse than the war, I was small then. A true war began in 1992.

    Why?

    Why? The plant was closed down; we were about 52 and 53 years old. They pensioned us off. They gave us …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Residence and weekdays, Ira Motolyga

  • A person and authorities

    So, there started such persecutions, my mother told me that she was dating with a boy from Poland who was implicated in something. So before the very graduation from the institute, we were already …

    Researcher: Наталья Иващенко, кандидат исторических наук, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы, Светлана Силова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент, ГрГУ им. Я. Купалы

    Categories: Man and authority, Ira Motolyga

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