Daria Reznyk

Daria Reznyk, M.A.

Affiliated Researcher
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ORCID Culture and Imagination

About

Daria Reznyk was born in Donetsk, Ukraine. She studied History at the Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University and the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv from which she received her Master's degree in 2020. From 2019 to 2022 she was Head of the Information Department at the Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes »Territory of Terror« in Lviv; in 2022, she curated the exhibition »Voices: A Mosaic of Ukrainian Jewish life« at the Jewish Museum Augsburg, Swabia.

November 2022–December 2023, Daria Reznik has been a visiting researcher at the GWZO funded by a scholarship for refugee scholars. Since January 2024 Daria Reznyk has been an affiliated researcher at the GWZO and a doctoral scholarship holder of the Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-DIenst (KAAD).

 

Work focus

Oral history of Soviet and Nazi terror in Ukraine.

Functions and memberships

 Board member of the NGO »After Silence« (Lviv, Ukraine)

Current Research Topic

This research is based on the oral histories of victims of Soviet deportation from the western part of Ukraine to territories in the East of the USSR, such as Siberia and Kazakhstan. The deportees lived in the so-called “special settlements” that existed in the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1950s. The research uses narrative analysis and contextualizes stories of the deportees in the post-independence memorial culture in Ukraine.

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