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Halyna Kopač, née Holcová, was born on 5 December 1936 in the village of Janova Dolina in what was then interwar Poland. Her father was of Czech origin, her mother was Polish. The family originally lived in Zdolbunów, but shortly after Halyna’s birth, her parents moved to work in a stone quarry in Janova Dolina. On April 23, 1943, Janova Dolina was burned down by the Ukrainian rebel army. During the burning, her father was shot, but the rest of the Holc family was saved by living in the house together with the Volksdeutsche, who were spared the violence of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. After the burning, the Germans sent a train to Kostopol. Thus Halyna Kopač, her mother and younger sister reached the district town, after which they all went to Zdolbunov. There Halyna Kopač first attended Czech, Polish and finally Ukrainian schools. In 1947 she was supposed to re-emigrate to Czechoslovakia, but through an unfortunate series of events she remained in Ukraine. She graduated as an accountant and worked as an accountant, economist and forewoman in a plastic packaging factory. She retired in 1996. In 2014 she was living in Zdolbunov.
