Born in the Ukraine

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Tatiana Sergeievna Vitkovskaya, born in Yusovka (today: Donetsk) in1921 as the daughter of a Russian nobleman and a German-Russian mother, tells about her childhood and youth in the Soviet Union, where her father, a sought-after specialist in electrical engineering, is sent to different places from Charkov to Magadan. When she is about to finish her Freshman year in college, WWII hits the Ukraine hard and the family, almost starved to death, escapes to Germany. She gets married to a German and has three children before emanciapating herself and becoming an independent woman.