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Testimonies from Ukraine

Petro Hamik during his service in the Soviet Army, 1960s

Petro Dzyndra Петро Дзиндра

* 1944

Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine, Artists, A cultural celebrity

1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands

Rostyslava Fedak (center), Khrystyna Rutar (left), Hanna Zaremba-Kosovych (right) at the Museum of the History of the Ukrainian Women's Movement (2020, Lviv)

Rostyslava Fedak (Teleha) Ростислава Федак (Телега)

* 1933 †︎ 2021

Ukraine, Holocaust, A victim of communist repressions in Halychyna

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine

Božena Frolová, late 1950s

Božena Frolová

* 1937

Volhynian Czechs, Ukraine, Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Repatriated

25. 2. 1948 - Communist coup d‘état in ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 1943 - Conflict between Poles and Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, 1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, Organization of Ukrainian nationalists (1929 - 1950 рр.) and 4 more anniversaries

Lyudmila Gatsenko, 2023

Lyudmyla Gatsenko Людмила Гаценко

* 1969

Ukraine, National minorities

2022 - full scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine

Dariya Hermak, photo taken in Kineshma on November 1, 1954

Darya Hermak Дарія Гермак

* 1936

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Underage political prisoners

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Mykola Horbal, 1970

Mykola Horbal Микола Горбаль

* 1940

Human Rights Defender in Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukrainian Dissent, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 1940 - 1941 - Deportations of Poles to USSR

Halyna Ustymivna Hordienko in 1953

Halyna Ustymivna Hordienko

* 1929

Ukraine, Holocaust, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Hidden people, Farmer

1941-1944 - Nazi occupation of Ukraine, 22. 6. 1941 – Operation Barbarossa - Nazi attack on the USSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, March 5th, 1953 - Death of Josif V. Stalin, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Ivan Hrechko

Ivan Hrechko Іван Гречко

* 1929

Ukrainian Dissent, Ukraine, Important cultural personality in Ukraine, Victims of church persecution in 1948-1989, Relative of a political prisoner and 1 more categories

Western Ukrainian lands within Poland 1919–1939, Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Viacheslav Ilyashenko, 2017

Vjačeslav Iljašenko

* 1959

Dissident, National minorities, Witness of local events from the Communist era, Art and censorship, Volhynian Czechs and 1 more categories

26 April 1986 - Chernobyl disaster

Nina Jahnová in 2024

Nina Jahnová

* 1923

Ukraine, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Forced labour during the WW2, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

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