"My husband was from Poland as well. We are both from Poland. My husband's village was Rudka. But which district? I don't know. And I'm from the Kosiy village."
"Mom was preparing for a new job in Kirovohrad and dad already worked as a director but mom says: 'We will go to our people. I want to go to our people.' And off they went."
"We arrived. And my mom from Mykolayiv - keep in mind where Mikolayiv and where Tuchyn are - that cow and that heifer, they brought it by hand. When it was dark, when it was night, they stayed overnight. They milked the cow, drank milk and gave some to those people at whose house they were staying."
Sofia Opanasivna Mochil, née Kasich, was born on the 12th of July in 1940 in the village of Kosiy in the Chełm district in Lublin Voivodeship in the General Government (General Governorate for the Occupied Polish Region) in a Ukrainian family. In Kosiy, she lived during the Nazi occupation and after the Red Army liberated the area, their family was resettled to the Mikolayiv district in southern Ukraine while the Poles from western Ukraine were resettled to Poland. From southern Ukraine, the family moved to the Rivne region in western Ukraine where they settled in the Tukhyn settlement near Rivne. Sofia says that the family coped badly with their move to Ukraine. After marrying Hreshko Mochil, another settler from Poland, the witness moved to the Zahora villlage by Hlinsk near Zdolbunov and worked in the local kolkhoz. At the time of recording, the witness lived in Zahora near Hlinsk in the Rivne district in western Ukraine.
