Interview with Hanna Kavun, July 1, 2023

Project: Witnessing and Documenting the Russian War in Ukraine Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Hanna Kavun was born and raised in Demuryne, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, but has been living in Radsad, Mykolaiv Oblast, for more than 50 years. She has a long family story of how female members of her family suffered from different armed conflicts. She tells the stories of her grandmother and mother who witnessed Russian Civil War (1917-1922), Soviet occupation of Ukraine (1921), dekulakization (1917-1933), Holodomor (1932-1933), collectivization (1928-1940), and Nazi occupation of Ukraine during World War II (1941-1944). Hanna shares her family stories drawing parallels with today’s reality of Russo-Ukrainian War.

Interview Accession

2023oh0946_wcuua0011

Interviewee Name

Hanna Kavun

Interviewer Name

Yuliia Slipchenko

Interview Date

2023-07-01

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Kavun, Hanna Interview by Yuliia Slipchenko. 01 Jul. 2023. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Kavun, H. (2023, July 01). Interview by Y. Slipchenko. Witnessing and Documenting the Russian War in Ukraine Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Kavun, Hanna, interview by Yuliia Slipchenko. July 01, 2023, Witnessing and Documenting the Russian War in Ukraine Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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