What is it like to be living your life, to have loved ones – your husband, your children, your parents, your siblings, your job – and suddenly the most violent war in human history tears it all apart and uproots you? What's it like to march ignorantly towards a mass grave? What is it like to lose everything you love and be left without a home, without food, in a country where everything is burnt? What is it that makes a man survive, when the enemy is out to exterminate him? Is all this a thing of the past or is it an integral part of our present and future? Is it something that can happen to "others" but not to "me"? Who defines our lives? Can I escape from something that seems one-way, something that is imposed on me and seems insurmountable?
The book you are holding in your hands tries to answer these questions. Based on real events, through the fictional reconstruction of the true story of Dina Pranitseva, one of the few people who survived the Nazi atrocity, which over two years systematically exterminated thousands of Jews, Roma, prisoners of war and other groups in Babi Yar (Grandmother's Gorge), in Kyiv, Ukraine, during World War II.
Olga Paizi -
Excellent!