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Looking for Omelanka: Jean-Michele Gregory

The Moth

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I'm Looking Into the Trees, You'll See Something

60 years ago, this village was burned to the ground. It was set on fire by the Bandarove who believed that if they helped Hitler of ridding the whole area of everyone who wasn't Ukrainian then they would be given their long sought country. "I felt not sadness and not happiness but just this feeling that I can only describe now as a kind of ecstatic serenity," she says.

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