Forced displacement from and within Ukraine | Memory of Nations

People who have been forced to leave their homes as a result of the Russian military aggression against Ukraine since 2014.

Anna Havrilová (Kahanová)

Anna Havrilová

* 1926

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands

Iryna Kalja, August 4, 2013

Iryna Kalja

* 1942

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Czech minority in the former USSR, National minorities, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Volhynian Czechs

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Reemigration of Czechs and Slovaks from Romania to Czechoslovakia (1945 - 1949), Ukraine in 1990-s., 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR and 2 more anniversaries

Daniel Malyk in military uniform (1962)

Ing. Daniel Malyk

* 1943

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Foreigner living in Czechoslovakia before the year 1989, Victim of forced relocation, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Witness of local events from the Communist era

5. – 9. 5. 1945 - Prague Uprising, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Liana Yelchaninova during the interview, 2024

Ліана Єльчанінова Liana Yelchaninova

* 1969

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, Perestroika, The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014) and 1 more anniversaries

Olha Birzul during the interview, 2025

Ольга Бірзул Olha Birzul

* 1982

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, The Orange Revolution of 2004, 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Ukraine in 1990-s.

Viacheslav Babak during the interview, 2024

В'ячеслав Бабак Viacheslav Babak

* 1946

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine, Art and censorship, Artists

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014), Ukraine in 1990-s.

Halyna Balabanova during the interview, 2022

Галина Балабанова Halyna Balabanova

* 1989

Ukraine, Journalist, Forced displacement from and within Ukraine

Ukraine in 1990-s., The Orange Revolution of 2004, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014), The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014), 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Amet Bekir at the Berestechko Festival, 2016

Амет Бекір Amet Bekir

* 1973

Ukraine, Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, National minorities, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Civic activism in Ukraine

Perestroika, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014), The Annexation of Crimea (February 2014), 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine and 1 more anniversaries

Lada Bohomolova during the interview, 2024

Лада Богомолова Lada Bohomolova

* 1972

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine

2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Orange Revolution of 2004, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014) and 3 more anniversaries

Maryna Bohun as a member of the Luhansk dance troupe at the Palace Ukraine Concert Hall

Марина Богун Maryna Bohun

* 1982

Forced displacement from and within Ukraine, Ukraine

The Orange Revolution of 2004, The Revolution of Dignity (21.11. 2013 – 22.02. 2014), 2014 - first invasion of Russia into Ukraine, 2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

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