I don't want to live. Why is life like this without dad? The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam will show the diaries of 14 Ukrainian children

< p>The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam will show the diaries of 14 children who recorded the events of their lives since the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Russia. This was reported by Khrystyna Hranovska, the initiator of the “War Diaries: Unheard Voices of Ukrainian Children” project.

"Symbolic city, less than 100 km from The Hague — a place that becomes a hub of justice for all those affected by aggression and other international crimes. Crimes that are silenced and ignored. Crimes committed also against Ukrainian children”, — Hrystyna wrote to herself on Instagram.

She has been working in the children's business for the past 15  years, and is also a mother of four children herself, so it is important for Hranovska to talk more often about the problems of children during the war, reports "Suspilne" .

The exhibition will officially open at the Amsterdam City Hall on August 17 at 12:30 p.m. It will last at the Anne Frank Museum until September 24. In addition to the exhibition itself, the organizers have planned a workshop for migrant children, who are now forced to stay in the Netherlands due to the war in Ukraine, for September 16-17. According to Hranovska, her team wants to give these children the opportunity to find new friends, support and show that they are not alone and that they are fighting for their word.

Over the project “Diaries” the cultural development agency Port.agency worked for more than 9 months. These are 14 stories of 9-17-year-old children from all over the country who survived the occupation, the loss of loved ones, but continue to dream. Katya Taylor, the founder and curator of Port.agency, says: “Half of them lost their dads. Sometimes a diary — this is the only thing that the family took out of the occupation. There is also a burnt-out father's phone, a child's toy.

The exhibition will consist of a visual diary of the war through the eyes of children and will be presented in the form of an audio and video interview. A separate block will be dedicated to children's personal belongings. In addition to the records, there will also be children's drawings, because many of them drew, not wrote.

10-year-old Yehor was hiding in a shelter in Mariupol with his family. When he got out, he decided to become a chef. The boy wrote in his diary: “I was very hungry while I was sitting in the basement, so now I want to become a cook to feed all the people around me and all over Ukraine, so that no one is hungry anymore.”

"I don't want to live. Why is life like this without dad? But I'm still a clumsy child who can't do anything on my own, but, probably, this is my punishment, probably for the fact that I didn't keep silent and called my dad, I didn't endure it. If I hadn't called my dad, everything would have been fine, everyone would have been alive,", — writes 13-year-old Arina Pervunina. Her father died when he tried to take his daughter with her brother and cousins ​​from the Kherson region to Mykolaiv.

In July, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Dmytro Kuleba, read the notes from the rostrum of the UN General Assembly.