The section is a valuable collection of personal testimonies of participants in the Ukrainian dissident movement. These memoirs - autobiographical texts, memoirs, diaries, and essays - reflect individual experiences of resistance, repression, imprisonment, and moral choices under Soviet totalitarianism. The authors include well-known figures such as Vasyl Lisovyi, Vasyl Ovsiienko, and others. The material in this section allows you to dive deeper into personal stories. This section is an important source of oral history that keeps alive the memory of the struggle for human rights in Ukraine.

Online meeting dedicated to the memory of the outstanding Ukrainian poet Borys Chychybabin

After serving in the army for several years during the Second World War, he studied philosophy at Kharkiv University. In 1946, his studies were interrupted by an arrest.

Yevhen Zakharov: '...And that's when we created KHPG'

Fighting against punitive psychiatry, helping distributors of the informal press, and... gardening. On the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's birthday, its director, Yevhen Zakharov, tells us how it all began.

About Henrich Altunyan

Henrich always radiated energy and a love for life he never complained about his health. He had enough life in him for ten people, and his senseless death from complications after a failed surgery was simply impossible to believe. More than 18 years have passed since then, and all these years, the feeling of how much he is missed has never left me.

They Spoke to Us in the Language of Machine Guns: The Memoirs of Yevhen Hrytsiak about the Norilsk Uprising

How did Ukrainians stage one of the largest uprisings in the Soviet camps? To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Norilsk uprising, we recount the memories of one of its organizers.

Oleksa Riznykiv’s Open Letter to Ivan Dziuba

Oleksa Riznykiv presents the text of an open letter he wrote in 1969 to Ivan Dziuba, recounting the history of this letter and the context of its writing.

In Memory of Vitaly (Vilya) Svechinsky

General Kryukov, and when he was presented with the lists of those awarded the Order of the Red Banner, seeing the name Lazar Svechinsky, he said: “Lazar?! The Red Star is enough for this one!” It was the first time in his life my father encountered blatant antisemitism...

About Boris Chichibabin

January 9 marks the 100th birthday of the remarkable poet Boris Alekseyevich Chichibabin (1923–1994). This article offers some brief notes on a few of his poems.

Investigator Kolchyk

A short story about how KGB investigator Mykola Kolchyk tortured his victims.

The Group of Twenty-Four

Yulia Viner's memories of an event that took place 50 years ago, when 24 Jews gathered in the reception office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, demanding a solution to the problem of emigration to Israel.

How Dissidents Sent an Audio Message from the Camps

In 1969, in Mordovian camp No. 17, political prisoners Aleksandr Ginzburg, Yuly Daniel, and Viktor Kalniņš managed to record a literary program on magnetic tape.
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