Alexandrina Ivanovna was born in 1934 in the village of Usvya, Ushachsky district, into the family of Ivan Ignatievich and Pelageya Alexandrovna Kamovich. The woman does not remember her father; he passed away when Alexandrina was still a toddler. Pelageya Alexandrovna raised her and her older sister Nina alone. From a very young age, Sasha worked with her mother, learning the value of peasant bread, but her childhood ended entirely when the Great Patriotic War broke out.

Vitebsk region then bore the brunt of the heaviest blow. In 1944, the Nazis burned down the Kamovichs' house as well. Fleeing from the enemy and seeking protection, Pelageya Alexandrovna, with her daughters, headed towards the Ushachi partisan zone. They hid in bushes during the day and retreated at night. Near the village of Matyrino, they were captured. Alexandrina Ivanovna still remembers the column in which the Germans drove them: men in front as a "human shield," and women with children followed under escort. "They drove us to Ushachi, then to Lepel, Parafyanovo," Alexandrina Ivanovna recalled during the meeting. "There we lived in barracks, Mom and Nina were forced to dig trenches, then we were taken to Germany through Poland..."

The little girl saw death up close more than once. She remembers hunger, the terrible fear that gripped her insides, how people were killed. But even amidst this horror, there was room for sincere curiosity in her young heart. Alexandrina Ivanovna clearly remembers the moment she first saw a train. At ten years old, she didn't care where it would take her. She so wanted to try what it was like and just ride on it. But behind this first "journey" lay a harsh reality: from July 27, 1944, to May 9, 1945, Alexandrina Ivanovna, her mother, and her sister spent in captivity in Berlin, in the very lair of the enemy.

For some time, the captives lived in Warsaw. "There, our work from morning till late evening was weeding vegetable fields," Alexandrina Ivanovna recounted. "In Germany, we lived in Berlin. Mother and sister Nina worked at an aluminum factory: mother as a cleaner, and Nina as a welder. We lived in a two-story house with a basement below. When the bombings began, every day at seven in the evening, we went down to the shelter and stayed there until morning. Once, for three days, without food or water. Our house was soon destroyed. After Soviet soldiers arrived in Berlin and the Germans retreated, many Russians fled to the forests, where the Germans intercepted and shot them. We miraculously survived..."

After Victory, the family returned to Belarus. In Pelageya Aleksandrovna's native village, Frolovichi, their uncle took them in – three families lived in one house.

Alexandrina Ivanovna later married in the village of Frolovichi. The young couple settled in her husband's parents' house, and later expanded it and started their own large family. Until her last days, Pelageya Aleksandrovna lived with her youngest daughter – who repaid the warmth that her mother had preserved for her daughters during the war years.

Alexandrina Ivanovna's life in peacetime was connected with animal husbandry. The woman worked as a pig-tender and calf-tender, setting labor records that were repeatedly featured in the district newspaper, and later worked conscientiously for almost twenty years at the local cannery and vegetable drying plant. She was even offered a position as a foreman, but out of modesty, she refused due to her three-grade education.

Together with her husband Vasily Dmitrievich, Alexandrina Ivanovna raised three sons. Unfortunately, today, only her son Alexander, who lives in Ulla, is by her side. The grandmother is delighted by her six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. She does not feel lonely: schoolchildren and representatives of the rural council visit her, and social worker Natalia Ivanovna Goncharenko has become the