Local museum on the basis of the House of Culture, Lvove village, Beryslav district, Kherson region

Larysa Dyakiv, a local English and history teacher, and her students have been researching the history of the village. She believes that the local librarian Liudmyla Pyliuk started the microarchive collection because she recorded the memories of six people at the local level for her own collection. It was at the library level, and she collected it in 10 years. Dyakiv first contacted Pyluk about this topic in 2015, and Pyluk handed over her records. Initially, Dyakiv and local school students were working on a project for the national competition “History of My Community,” and Dyakiv invited the children to participate. The school research focused on identifying the names of people who were shot in Lvove during World War II. In 2018, the initiative group published an appeal by the children, “Turning the Forgotten into the Unforgettable,” to the local community for information about the residents of Lvove who were in the area during the Nazi occupation. The main members of the research group: 10th graders Katya Durkina, Nadia Lavrenko, Olya Vararu, Maksym Goliak, Lutsenko Vlada, and Karina Kushnerevich. Thus, Yuriy Doschechkin from Kharkiv contacted the group, someone responded from Copenhagen, and from Kyiv - people from two families came to Lvove. Dyakiv could not give the name of this Jewish family, but she did give the name Sarah, who was the last person from this family to live in Lvove. Dyakiv said that there was a letter from Crimea about this family. The Dyakiv initiative group was able to record up to 10 records of memories of local people that were left in paper form in the Dyakiv house during the Russian occupation of the village in 2022. Among those interviewed by her group, Dyakiv recalled the mother of a local school employee, her surname is Vovk, as well as Ivan Irzhansky, whose father was Jewish and died in the war, and whose mother was Ukrainian, who hid him from being shot in an oven with her friends. His grandmother was shot because she did not want to evacuate.

Also recorded were the memoirs of Mykola Antypov, which contain facts about a convoy of Jews who were led to the village to be shot at a local cattle cemetery, and the memoirs of Natalia Biloshapka, whose grandmother told her how she witnessed the shooting of Jews. The local passport officer Olena should know who else was interviewed from the local old-timers during the activities of the Dyakiv initiative group.

The Dyakiv group managed to compile a list of 104 people - they found the names of fallen soldiers mobilized from Lvove, mostly Jewish names that were not listed on the local memorial near the House of Culture in Lvove. The group appealed to the local authorities to produce two additional memorial plaques with these names. Two plates with the names of 104 residents were added to the memorial in the village.

The materials in the collection were not digitized.

What was in the library remained in the library. The new librarian, Tetiana Mykolaivna Kobernyk, told the Dyakiv that everything was still in the library at the time of the Russian occupation of the village in 2022. Two posters with original photos remained in the library. The recordings of local people's memories collected by Pyluk were kept in the Dyakiv's personal home in time of occupation in 2022/

Dyakiv has two audio recordings of local residents: project participant Olha Vararu recorded her father recalling what his classmate Leonid Kovbasenko said, and an audio recording of longtime resident Lidia Skrypkina, who witnessed the Holocaust.

Lvove village, Beryslav district, Kherson region, 40s of the 20th century.

Initiative of the local teacher and her students.

Local department of culture and education

A museum was planned to open on the 2nd floor of the House of Culture before the war started 2022, and the museum's exposition was to be based on the history of two local families: a Ukrainian and a Jewish family. The building had already been repaired, with putty and painting. After the de-occupation of the village in 2022, the building was damaged (the video with the destroyed house was filmed in the first days after the de-occupation by the locals and provided by Dyakiv). The future museum consists of two rooms; in addition to the large room, there was also a small room that was planned to be used as an archive.

Some of the photos, stands, and other materials of the collection were kept in the library across the street from the House of Culture on Mahistralna Street.

Also, some of the materials remained in Dyakiv's private home in Lvove, and she does not know the state of preservation of this part of the collection, as the village is under constant shelling by the Russian military. The records made by Dyakiv are located at 9 Poliova Street, to which she has no access: “rough notes of memoirs, some documents, my notes when I worked in the archive in Kherson, where and what information about Lvove is there.”

Dyakiv left some of the materials in the collection in a local school in a psychological relief room; she estimates the number of such materials to be about 100 items that have not been digitized. When the initiative group visited people, they took photos and certificates for the museum. The school has been destroyed as a result of hostilities since 2022.

When a group of Dyakiv raised money in the village to open a museum, they put a glass jar in every store to collect donations. Dyakiv still has a digital copy of the information label that was glued to the jars.