People Who Wouldn't Exist

Our families were meant to vanish alongside the millions of Ukrainians whom starvation was used to destroy. But someone survived. Someone saved a child. Someone endured the unimaginable and passed life on to the next generation.

Join us at Toloka on November 7 at 6:30 PM for the opening of the Month of Remembrance, “People Who Were Never Meant to Exist.”

This project shares the family stories of people who survived Ukraine’s man-made famines, as told by their descendants.

In 2024, we brought these stories together in one space for the first time. This year, the project returns with new accounts from families who continue to preserve the memory of what their loved ones endured.

Behind every story is a person who survived. Behind every survivor are children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Entire generations that might never have existed.

This project is about memory passed down through families. About experiences that…