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Olena Teliga: "Through January — into the warmth of April"

Olena Teliga: "Through January — into the warmth of April"

1994, 24 min

Ukrainian Television, Creative Association "Nauka", 1994. The program is dedicated to the biography and activities of the poet, literary critic, and public figure Olena Teliga.

On the video: letters and photos of Olena Teliga; footage from the Lviv chronicle; footage from the Kyiv war chronicle; photo of Olena Teliga and Dmytro Dontsov; the cell in which the poetess was held.

The author of the issue and narrator is Mykola Shudrya.
Poems and letters were read by Lyudmila Lymar.

Reference: Olena Teliga is a Ukrainian poet, publicist, literary critic, and active member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. In 1941–1942, she headed the Union of Ukrainian Writers in Kyiv, edited the literary and artistic weekly "Litavry" at the newspaper "Ukrainian Word", and participated in the activities of the Ukrainian underground. In February 1942, she was shot by German occupation troops in Babyn Yar.