My Ukrainian Heritage : Laryssa
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Laryssa Menkova reads her diary entry, entitled ‘My Ukrainian Heritage - Part 4: Conscripted! Siberian Worker’s Army to World War II Soldier’. From one army / nightmare into another. Join Mikhail’s story where we last left off, with his forced conscription into the worker’s army and a one way...
Published 12/24/22
Laryssa Menkova reads her diary entry, entitled ‘My Ukrainian Heritage - Part 3: Hiding in Plain Sight from the Dekulakization in Valuyki’. In part 3 of ‘My Ukrainian Heritage’, Laryssa shares how her father nearly evades capture during dekulakization in Russia by hiding in plain sight. Read...
Published 12/07/22
Laryssa Menkova reads her diary entry, entitled ‘My Ukrainian Heritage - Part 2: Fleeing Dekulakization in Early 1930s Russia’. In Part 2 of My Ukrainian Heritage, Laryssa shares her father’s story of survival in fleeing dekulakization and Polatova, Russia at age 18. Read and engage with the...
Published 11/26/22