People

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  “My job is to prevent time from erasing the evidence.” Dariia Martyniuk is a conservator at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We spoke with her about how to preserve memory

  In the conservation laboratories of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , specialists dedicate themselves to preserving one of humanity’s most tragic historical records:...

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  Galyna Solovei studied in South Korea, contributed to education reform in Ukraine, and taught in Kyiv, Amsterdam, and Madrid. Here is how she managed to do it

  Galyna Solovei is 47 years old. She studied philosophy, took part in reforming Ukraine’s education system, trained in international development policy in South Korea, and...

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  “War is always a poison for democracy.” Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on human rights defense and justice that cannot exist without humanity

  Oleksandra Matviichuk is 42 years old. She has been involved in human rights defense for twenty of those years. During the Euromaidan , the organization led by Matviichuk...

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  Voices of Children has spent years helping children affected by war. The story of one of Ukraine’s largest charitable foundations

  Olena Rozvadovska and Azad Safarov founded the Voices of Children foundation after working on the film A House Made of Splinters about a children’s shelter in ...

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  “Material has memory—and it will be evidence of the Russian Federation’s crimes against Ukraine.” Artist Zhanna Kadyrova on war as a reality that defines everything. An interview

  Zhanna Kadyrova is one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists. In her works, she has frequently engaged with urban space, and since 2022, she has been speaking about and...

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  Herhel Clinic — a cosmetology clinic in Poland, founded by a Ukrainian couple. It is valued at $4 million. How the founders built it — interview

  Alina and Danylo Herhel from Dnipro are a married couple and business partners. In 2013, they moved to Warsaw, where Alina began seeing clients as a cosmetologist in a private...

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  “We deliberately don’t make Sauvignon.” How Ukrainian women in New Zealand are creating wine from non-trendy grape varieties — interview

  Alina Tenetka and Maria Skorchenko are oenologists with more than ten years of experience who have worked at wineries in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres and...

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  How the Ukrainian collectible axe brand Ancient Smithy built a million-dollar business on Etsy, Amazon, and God of War fans. An interview

  Ancient Smithy is a Ukrainian brand of handcrafted forged axes, founded in 2017 by former IT professional Mykhailo Peresunko. Starting with selling knives on eBay and...