Lost Childhood

Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror" / House of Europe

Project conducted in cooperation between Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territoryof Terror" in Lviv and Post Bellum, financed by the European Union and the consortium partners through the "House of Europe" Programme.

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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

family photo of Kostelni family - from left to right: 3rd row: Anna (from Kostelni house, the narrator's sister), her husband - Dmytro Kish, sister Mariya Kostelna; 2nd row: neighbor, Mykhailo - father of the respondent, respondent, mother Kateryna (from Dembitski house), son of Hanna and Dmytro sitting in her arms; 3rd row - sister Ivanna Kostelna. Yuzhnaya mine, Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo region

Bohdan Kostelnyi Богдан Костельний

* 1945

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Mykola Kostyshyn Микола Костишин

* 1941

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Vasyl Lesyshin (on the photo - the first person on the left side) with friends from Latvia, special settlement Ust-Shysh, winter of 1952 or 1953.

Vasyl Lesyshyn Василь Лесишин

* 1947

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Stepan Prytula Степан Притула

* 1934

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Victim of forced relocation, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, 1944 - 1947 - Population Transfers from the Ukrainian - Polish Borderlands

Yaroslav Nahirnyi - Mariya's brother, born in 1954 in a special settlement.

Mariya Shovhenyuk Шовгенюк Марія

* 1949

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

A childhood photo of Volodymyr Shvets sent to his mother in Siberia in 1950.

Volodymyr Shvets Володимир Швець

* 1949

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine

Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950

Zakharkiv Oleksiy (on the left side) with his friend Kachan Yaroslav, who was relocated from Zboriv district. Siberia, village Novopestery (now - Novopesterovo), Kemerovo region, 1953

Oleksiy Zakharkiv Олексій Захарків

* 1944

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, A victim of communist repressions in Halychyna, Victim of forced relocation

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Yuriy Zirchenko after arrival, in his grandmother's garden

Yuriy Zirchenko Юрій Зірченко

* 1950

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, Underage political prisoners, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990

Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950, Ukraine in 1986–1991

Sofiya (left) and her friends in Siberia

Sofiya Zubrytska Софія Зубрицька

* 1942

Ukraine, Victim of Stalinist persecution in Ukraine, The Deportation of peoples in the Soviet Union, Ukrainians in the GULAG, 1944 - 1990

Ukrainian insurgent movement 1930–1950, Deportations to the Far East, Siberia and North Kazachstan 1939–1941 and 1944–1950, Arrests in Western Ukraine 1949-1950

Lost Childhood

Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes "Territory of Terror" / House of Europe

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Kateřina Večeřová

Iveta Clarke

Alžběta Bürgerová

Lída Engelová

Mgr. Jana Zendulková