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La mère et la tante d'Anna autour de sa grand-mère, dans les années 1930.
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna’s mother and aunt with her grandmother in the 1930s
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Just after arriving at the place of deportation, Anna’s mother with all her children
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna Kovalchuk’s mother in exile
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna and 4 deported Ukrainian friends in Bulak, 1952 or 1953
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna in Bulak in 1954
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Grigori, Anna’s brother, in Bulak
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna as a student in Novosibirsk
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna (top right) with three students in Novosibirsk, circa 1954
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna and a student friend in Novosibirsk, circa 1954
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna just after her marriage in 1956
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna just after her marriage in 1956
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna’s husband just after their marriage in 1956
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna and her husband at the time of their wedding in 1956
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna and her husband at the time of their wedding in 1956
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova Anna’s mother and her grandchildren after their return to Ukraine, circa 1984
© Anna Kovalchuk-Tarasova

Childhood in exile

 

These photographs were taken at the start of the deportation period, then after liberation. One early photograph, with Anna’s mother and grandmother, dates from before deportation.

Many details reveal the nature of life in exile, particularly on one photograph taken just after their arrival: the mother poses with her children, who are still wearing odd shoes, showing their extreme poverty. Anna recalls that her brothers went to school every other day in turn, because they only had one pair of shoes between them.