War diaries of Ukrainian children find a place in Amsterdam, where Anne Frank wrote her WWII account in hiding
Anne Frank wrote her World War II diary while hiding with her family from the brutal Nazi occupation is hosting an exhibition about the Ukraine war with grim echoes of her plight more than three quarters of a century later. The exhibition that opened at Amsterdam City Hall on Thursday offers a vision of the war in Ukraine as experienced by children caught in the devastating conflict. «This exhibition is about the pain through the children's eyes,» Khrystyna Khranovska, who developed the idea, said at the opening. «It strikes into the very heart of every adult to be aware of the suffering and grief that the Russian war has brought our children,» she added. "War Diaries," includes writings like those that Anne Frank penned in the hidden annex behind an Amsterdam canal-side house, but also modern ways Ukrainian children have recorded and processed the traumatic experience of life during wartime, including photos and video. Among them is the artwork of Mykola Kostenko, now 15, who spent 21 days under siege in the port city of Mariupol. The relentless attack on the southern port city became a symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin's drive to crush Ukraine soon after Russia invaded its neighbor in February last year, but also of resistance and resilience of its 430,000 population.
Two pages of the diary of Yehor Kravtsov, 10 years-old, are exhibited at the War Diaries exhibition, showcasing the personal diaries of Ukrainian children who have witnessed the war, hosted by the Amsterdam city hall, Netherlands, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)His pictures from that time are in blue ballpoint pen on pieces of paper torn out of notebooks — that's all Kostenko had. One of them shows the tiny basement where he
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