||Table of Contents| Translated by Selwyn Rose I live in the
small village of Rhodah near Ratno, in the western Ukraine, 60
Km from Kovel and 70 Km from Bresk. From 1939-1941 the area was
under Soviet authority. With the outbreak of World War Two the
Germans conquered the area and the Russian forces retreated
deeper into the Ukraine; we remained under German domination. In
our village were 300 families spread over a large area. Our
family numbered nine souls parents, four boys and three girls.
The Germans mobilized cooperative Ukrainians into a police
force, whom we called Cossacks. There were no Jews in our
village but we heard rumours of how the Germans and the Cossacks
were persecuting and murdering them. In the neighbouring village
of Gornicki lived Herzl Kaminski. My father, Waclaw, had always
been close to him and on good, friendly terms. Not only my
father but also many Ukrainians in the area held him in great
esteem as an honest and fair man. My father was a farmer,
religious, a simple good-hearted ma