Hanna Khomivna, now 89 years old, has been living alone for decades. Her husband passed away over forty years ago. Her childhood coincided with the harrowing times of World War II and the Holodomor. Hanna Khomivna often recalls those years when she had to work in the fields from the age of 12 just to earn a piece of bread. “We didn’t live back then, we merely survived,” she says.
In her youth, she worked in a collective farm brigade, performing arduous physical labor. Hanna dedicated her strength to her native land up until her retirement.
Hanna compares the present day with World War II: “That war wasn’t as cruel. The Germans would enter our homes, stay overnight, eat with us, but they didn’t kill us. They would move on. But now… they rape, they kill — this is real genocide.”
Today, this woman, who has endured the Holodomor, war, years of grueling work, and is now witnessing a new war, especially needs our support and care.