Now she lives in her own room in a modernized hostel in the Dnieper, obtained as part of the Yamariupol. Zhilier project, the arrangement of which was joined by the Rinat Akhmetov Foundation.
Tatyana said that after the experienced she feels as if she was born again. The woman told her story to the Museum of the Peaceful Foundation of Rinat Akhmetov.
“It was very difficult: in a bomb shelter without water, without food. The children were hungry, asked at least a piece of bread. We endlessly cried, worried, did not know what to do where we were going. After we survived in Mariupol, horror films were not terrible,” Tatyana said.
The woman recalled that in the bomb shelter the neighbor died of a stroke, no one could save him. Subsequently, the husband of Tatyana’s sister, the husband of the sister, also died from a heart attack. No less tiring than shelling, according to her, was hunger.
“I really wanted bread, at least some kind of callousness, at least some piece, I wanted to eat. There was no shops anywhere, nothing. The fact that the people had home, the looters were difficult. It was impossible to hear when my sister’s granddaughter cried and asked:“ Grandma, I want bread, I could not fall asleep, I cried, because I couldn’t see it, ”because I couldn’t see it, because I couldn’t see it. Tatiana.
She spoke about the difficult path to territories controlled by Ukraine.
“When we already drove and saw the inscription“ Orih ”, a guy went to the bus and spoke in Ukrainian. We cried, how rejoiced! Some woman jumped out of the bus and hugged my relatives. It was then that I felt how much I love my Ukraine. What kind of joy it was-to hear the Ukrainian language and understand that we were already in Ukraine,” Tatyana recalls.
You can see the history of Tatyana on the museum’s website.
Context
The collection of the Museum of the Peace of Peace Foundation Rinat Akhmetov has more than 140 thousand stories about the war. This is the world's largest collection of evidence of civilians who suffered from the Russian war against Ukraine. You can tell your history on the portal of the museum or at the hotline number 0 800 509 001.
The project “Yamariupol. Housing” is being implemented by the Mariupol City Council with the support of the French government, the International Organization for Migration and State Institutions of Ukraine since 2023. The Rinat Akhmetov Foundation continues to support the initiative. Modernized dormitories have already opened in the Dnieper and Kyiv, it is planned to open social housing in Chernivtsi and Zaporozhye.
