@akuperma
Good thing you are not in the High School History classes I teach in retirement.
“…..during the last war they had in the area (1941-1945).”
WWII started September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland!
The US was not involved until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor December 7, 1942.
Poland was a war zone 26 months by then, Ukraine part of the USSR was at war very soon after Poland.