Ben Skliar-Ward
@benskliarward.bsky.social
Exploring how Ukraine endured a century of empire, famine, and exile. The Quiet That Remains out now.
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What remains of a nation when its history is silenced?
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
8 November 1932: 93 years today, Stalin orders that goods to Ukrainian villages be halted until grain quotas are met; deepening that winter's man-made famine.
A union card for an accountant in the milling trade survives from that world of ledgers and grain.
#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Україна
A union card for an accountant in the milling trade survives from that world of ledgers and grain.
#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Україна
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
8 November 1932: 93 years today, Stalin orders that goods to Ukrainian villages be halted until grain quotas are met; deepening that winter's man-made famine.
A union card for an accountant in the milling trade survives from that world of ledgers and grain.
#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Україна
A union card for an accountant in the milling trade survives from that world of ledgers and grain.
#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Україна
Arras, France - c. 1950.
A small Ukrainian dance group - friends, siblings, and neighbours in exile - wearing vyshyvanky.
Each stitch carried a place, a pattern, a memory.
In exile, it became a quiet statement of remaining.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #UkrainianDiaspora #Vyshyvanka
A small Ukrainian dance group - friends, siblings, and neighbours in exile - wearing vyshyvanky.
Each stitch carried a place, a pattern, a memory.
In exile, it became a quiet statement of remaining.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #UkrainianDiaspora #Vyshyvanka
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Arras, France - c. 1950.
A small Ukrainian dance group - friends, siblings, and neighbours in exile - wearing vyshyvanky.
Each stitch carried a place, a pattern, a memory.
In exile, it became a quiet statement of remaining.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #UkrainianDiaspora #Vyshyvanka
A small Ukrainian dance group - friends, siblings, and neighbours in exile - wearing vyshyvanky.
Each stitch carried a place, a pattern, a memory.
In exile, it became a quiet statement of remaining.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #UkrainianDiaspora #Vyshyvanka
“The soul suffers. The trembita rings out.”
2 April 1950, Newhaven, England.
A Ukrainian poem, Ксеню, copied by hand in exile, echoing the folk song Hutsulka Ksenya, a Carpathian melody of love and belonging.
#HistBookChat #UkrainianPoetry #UkraineHistory #Україна
2 April 1950, Newhaven, England.
A Ukrainian poem, Ксеню, copied by hand in exile, echoing the folk song Hutsulka Ksenya, a Carpathian melody of love and belonging.
#HistBookChat #UkrainianPoetry #UkraineHistory #Україна
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“The soul suffers. The trembita rings out.”
2 April 1950, Newhaven, England.
A Ukrainian poem, Ксеню, copied by hand in exile, echoing the folk song Hutsulka Ksenya, a Carpathian melody of love and belonging.
#HistBookChat #UkrainianPoetry #UkraineHistory #Україна
2 April 1950, Newhaven, England.
A Ukrainian poem, Ксеню, copied by hand in exile, echoing the folk song Hutsulka Ksenya, a Carpathian melody of love and belonging.
#HistBookChat #UkrainianPoetry #UkraineHistory #Україна
c. 1945–48: Ukrainian print of a collage made in a Displaced-Persons camp in Bavaria.
Soviet newspaper clippings, repatriation appeals, political messaging - rearranged into new meaning.
The battle for language never ends; it only changes form.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #CulturalMemory
Soviet newspaper clippings, repatriation appeals, political messaging - rearranged into new meaning.
The battle for language never ends; it only changes form.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #CulturalMemory
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
c. 1945–48: Ukrainian print of a collage made in a Displaced-Persons camp in Bavaria.
Soviet newspaper clippings, repatriation appeals, political messaging - rearranged into new meaning.
The battle for language never ends; it only changes form.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #CulturalMemory
Soviet newspaper clippings, repatriation appeals, political messaging - rearranged into new meaning.
The battle for language never ends; it only changes form.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #CulturalMemory
1944: A Ukrainian Arbeitskarte.
The war’s paperwork outlived the war.
In every stamp and fingerprint; an uneasy record of control and endurance.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #TheQuietThatRemains
The war’s paperwork outlived the war.
In every stamp and fingerprint; an uneasy record of control and endurance.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #TheQuietThatRemains
October 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
1944: A Ukrainian Arbeitskarte.
The war’s paperwork outlived the war.
In every stamp and fingerprint; an uneasy record of control and endurance.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #TheQuietThatRemains
The war’s paperwork outlived the war.
In every stamp and fingerprint; an uneasy record of control and endurance.
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #TheQuietThatRemains
What remains of a nation when its history is silenced?
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What remains of a nation when its history is silenced?
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
The Quiet That Remains traces Ukraine’s turbulent twentieth century through the lives of one ordinary family - from empire and famine to exile and renewal.
skliar-ward.com
#TheQuietThatRemains #HistBookChat #UkraineHistory #NarrativeNonfiction
“If a nation’s culture survives, then so too does the nation.”
From Prague’s Museum Kampa - a sentiment that could have been written in any century Ukrainians fought to preserve their words and songs.
#Ukraine #HistBookChat #CulturalEndurance #TheQuietThatRemains
From Prague’s Museum Kampa - a sentiment that could have been written in any century Ukrainians fought to preserve their words and songs.
#Ukraine #HistBookChat #CulturalEndurance #TheQuietThatRemains
October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
“If a nation’s culture survives, then so too does the nation.”
From Prague’s Museum Kampa - a sentiment that could have been written in any century Ukrainians fought to preserve their words and songs.
#Ukraine #HistBookChat #CulturalEndurance #TheQuietThatRemains
From Prague’s Museum Kampa - a sentiment that could have been written in any century Ukrainians fought to preserve their words and songs.
#Ukraine #HistBookChat #CulturalEndurance #TheQuietThatRemains
1940: Viktor’s conscription papers, issued just before the front shifted again.
One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
Read more: www.skliar-ward.com
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory
One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
Read more: www.skliar-ward.com
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory
October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
1940: Viktor’s conscription papers, issued just before the front shifted again.
One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
Read more: www.skliar-ward.com
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory
One of thousands of fragments tracing Ukraine’s century between empires.
Read more: www.skliar-ward.com
#HistBookChat #UkraineHistory
A fragment from the 1930s: the Soviet passport of Evdokiya Skliar, born near Poltava — nationality listed as Ukrainian.
One of the earliest traces behind The Quiet That Remains, a history of Ukraine built from ordinary lives and fragile records.
www.skliar-ward.com
One of the earliest traces behind The Quiet That Remains, a history of Ukraine built from ordinary lives and fragile records.
www.skliar-ward.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A fragment from the 1930s: the Soviet passport of Evdokiya Skliar, born near Poltava — nationality listed as Ukrainian.
One of the earliest traces behind The Quiet That Remains, a history of Ukraine built from ordinary lives and fragile records.
www.skliar-ward.com
One of the earliest traces behind The Quiet That Remains, a history of Ukraine built from ordinary lives and fragile records.
www.skliar-ward.com