Hamburg. A choir that connects people

The German software developer and founder of the Ukrainian Catholic church choir Martin Dietze and the Ukrainian philologist Natalija Kostjak have been living in the north of Germany, in Hamburg, for almost 10 years.

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Bamberg. Immigration to Ukraine

Over the course of 20 years, Father Bohdan Puschkar has looked after the Greek-Catholic parish of St. Nicholas, which has become a centre for the unification of Ukrainians in Bamberg, Bavaria.

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Hamburg. Ukraine paint

Ukrainian artist and activist Julia Maruschko has been living in Hamburg for eight years. She works as a Waldorf teacher. She initiated the opening of the first Waldorf school in her home town of Luzk and the first class is starting there this year.

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Düsseldorf. The orchestra woman Oksana Lyniv

Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv is one of the world's best conductors of our time. And in 2021, Oksana Lyniv will conduct at the Bayreuth Festival - the first woman ever to do so. The Ukrainian conductor will lead the premiere of the Wagner opera „The Flying Dutchman“.

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Munich. The Ukrainian Free University

The Ukrainian Free University was founded by Ukrainian intellectuals in exile and became a scientific and educational institution for the Ukrainian diaspora, which did not want to lose its identity. The university remains a centre of knowledge about Ukraine in Europe to this day.

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Munich. Protecting Ukrainian embroidery

Nadia Halaburda, belongs to a diaspora family in which all four sisters make traditional embroidered blouses (vyshyvankas). Nadia says that a shirt sometimes takes 10 years to be embroidered. She herself has mastered 20-30 embroidery techniques.

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