On 14 September 2021, an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Mykola Onyschenko (1925–2021), a Holodomor survivor and member of the Supervisory Board of the Holodomor Museum Fund, opened at the Feat museum, a branch of the Berdiansk Museum of Local Lore.
The project exhibition contains Mykola Pavlovych’s handwritten memoirs of the Holodomor in the Berdiansk region, his stay in the Nazi penal camp in Germany during World War II and the filtration camp in Poland, the post-war years in Ukraine during his studies and later work as Deputy General Director of Luhanskteplovoz, etc. Memories of 2014 are also special, as Mykola and Taisiya Onyschenkos’ family were internally displaced after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in eastern Ukraine.
It should be noted that Mykola Pavlovych was writing his memoirs virtually in the last year of his life at the request of director of the Berdiansk Museum of Local Lore Liudmyla Nozdrina.
The exhibition is complemented by numerous photographs, archive documents and paintings by Mykola Onyschenko, which were handed over to the Berdiansk Museum of Local Lore by his family.
“I am happy with the fate’s gift of joy of communicating with such a sincere and interesting person as Mykola Pavlovych Onyschenko. Above all, I am grateful to the Museum Space portal editor, member of the Ukrainian Centre for Museology Development, director of the Holodomor Museum International Fund Lesia Hasydzhak, who kindly introduced me to our outstanding fellow countryman and who is to thank to for our funds replenished with unique materials from one of the most scrupulous witnesses of the Ukrainian history of the 20th century,” — said Ms Liudmyla Nozdrina.
It is a reminder that Mykola Onyschenko was one of the most active advocates of the Holodomor Museum project in Kyiv. And between 2018 and 2021 he was helping to build the Holodomor Museum International Fund structure as a Supervisory Board member.
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