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My Ukraine – Women’s Memory & Identity - Photos
17 December 2014 - As Ukraine continues to struggle for the right to shape its 21st-century identity, many people, especially WOMEN are reexamining their family roots as a reminder of who they are today. RFE/RL correspondent Daisy Sindelar recently traveled to six Ukrainian cities -- Kyiv, Lviv, Uzhhorod, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv -- to talk to people about their old family photographs. Multiple Ukrainian women’s and girls’ photos are posted at the above website link.
A number of Ukrainians who participated in the project
kept detailed family records and had carefully preserved hundreds of
photographs. Alla Husarova, a Kyiv-based journalist, traces much of her family
history back to the village of Bilky in the Vinnitsya region. Her grandmother,
Lesia Babukha (bottom left), pictured here as a schoolgirl, spent her entire
life in Bilky.
Several factors can contribute to a Ukrainian's sense of
identity. Natalia Zubchenko, an anesthiologist working in Dnipropetrovsk's
front-line evacuation hospital, says she owes much to being raised in a family
of strong women, many of them doctors, in a city with a character that is
neither "east nor west." Zubchenko says Dnipropetrovsk is a
"very specific" city responsible for producing a number of prominent
Ukrainian politicians -- Yulia Tymoshenko among them. This picture is of Zubchenko's
grandmother Nina Holovakha (at left, with her mother and sister).