Stories About Animals
A collection for children and adults about animals, told through attentive observations, warm memories, and reflections on how much animals understand and feel.
Literary work
Stories and books will be added here as they are processed. Most works are available first in their original Russian. Automatic translations are provided for convenience until reviewed translations are available.
People of My Childhood: Bobrynets in the Early 1950s
A memoir novel about postwar Bobrynets in the early 1950s, preserving the people, streets, market, celebrations, and everyday details of Vladimir Litvak's childhood. It is part of the larger work “Everything We Hold Dear”.
Everything We Hold Dear
Memoir prose and stories about Bobrynets, childhood, family memory, school years, and the people and places that remained dear across a lifetime.
Across Years and Distances
A short novel in letters and memories about a late-life love traced across years, distance, separation, and reunion. It is part of the book “Everything We Hold Dear”.
Fates of the Jewish Quarter
This book reconstructs the lives of people from Bobrynets, especially members of its once-large Jewish community. Family stories, neighbors’ recollections, letters, photographs, and archival records are brought together with the author’s reflections on their lives before the war, in evacuation and at the front, during the Holocaust, and afterward.