Nina Luc, roz. Sidorkevič

“I completed the school in Dubno, which was a teachers’ institute, I became a teacher and they sent me to Police. And so I lived in Police for two years, I worked there. Then I got to Rovno [sometimes spelled Rivno as well – auth.’s note], I lived in Rovno. Then I married. Well, that’s about it.”

“I attended the school there, and so did my mom. She taught Czech, Polish, and I don’t know what other languages. She taught Czech well, and she taught Polish well, too, because she was able to read all books in Polish. She spoke Polish, too. One woman here was receiving letters from Poland, and she would always bring them to my mom and mom would read and translate them for her. My mom studied well.”

“I was born in Mirohošť in 1940. My dad worked in Dubno. [And your name is Nina Luc?] Nina Sidorkevič, my parents’ surname was Sidorkevič. Luc is the surname of my husband’s. My mom was born as Helena Cinertová. They [ancestors – auth.’s note] arrived here, there was a forest, and they cleared the forest and they built a little house here.”

“When the Czechs left, there were celebrations, too, but no longer so many of them. There were fewer people, but it didn’t matter, they were gathering together, playing cards, games, ‘tisíc,’ ‘durak,’ that’s how it was called in Russian. They were gathering together. Nina Bilijenková and her husband were coming here, Mrs. Kurásová was coming, and sometimes they were even arguing when they played the ‘thousand and one’ card game. They were merry. And for example, when they slaughtered a pig, there was a feast. And then, they went to a ‘dacha.’ That’s how it was.”