my grandfather nikifor kvachuk worked as a road worker before the war, was engaged in trimming trees, to the west and the village of litovsk was liberated from the germans, my grandfather was drafted into the army in the summer of 1944 and laid down his head in poland , in the fall of the same year. my grandmother, anna , was left alone with four young sons , but the war did not spare my father. who was 12 years old at the time, the thing is that the military children of that time had toys also military, so the children in the summer of the same 1944 found a mortar mine and began to play with this very mine, apparently they began to dismantle it, as a result a tragic incident occurred, there were no more germans, the war seemed to roll back, but... the exploding mine buried two children, who were also 12-13 years old, like my father, my father survived, but he was severely cut by shrapnel, the fingers on his left hand were torn off, in principle, he lived with these fragments all his life, because they still couldn’t get the iron, and he died when these fragments of a military mine we