ukrainians

Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.

In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.

Andrei Bayda, newly arrived in Canada in 1900 along with his family, clings to the legends and traditions of his home in Ukraine while learning to accept and embrace his new life.

The young Ukrainian artist, Sasha Kotyenko, discusses her culture and traditions, and describes a painting she made of herself and her sisters embroidering.

Presents the diary of a fictional character, six-year-old Anya Soluniuk, chronicling her life in a family internment camp for Ukrainians at Spirit Lake during World War I.