Valentina Bobrova
May 27, 2024
Valentina Bobrova was born in 1945 in Voroshilovhrad, now Luhansk. Her grandfather, Mynko, was a successful horse merchant.
During wartime, Valentina Ivanovna remembers the story of her grandfather. He and his brother helped partisans and sold the best mare horse to one of them. After the war, the man who bought the horse contacted Valentina’s grandfather through other horse traders. He thanked Mynko because that mare saved his life.
She also recalls the tragic arrests and murders of her husband's relatives in Kharkiv. In 1947, Valentina’s family moved to Lviv. They found a house with a big yard to host horses and continued trading there. Valentina got married in 1965 and had two children.
Illustration by Sergei Asmar
See also
- Safeguarding Oral History of the Genocide of Roma in Ukraine
- Holocaust: tragedy of the Romani people that remains one of the least studied pages of the ІІ World
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- Valentina Lebedeva
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- Oleksandr Beinarovich
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- Ukrainian Decolonization: the Untold Roma Stories