Humenna, Dokia

[SIGNED] Khreshchatyi iar (Kyiv 1941-43): Roman-khronika = Khreshchaty Yar (Kyiw 1941–1943)

New York, NY: Ukrainian Writers Association “Slovo”, 1956. Item #1509

486 pages. 21 cm. Cover design by Liubomyr R. Kuzma. Signed by the author on the title page.

A powerful émigré novel written in exile, Khreshchatyi Yar is Dokiya Humenna’s epic reconstruction of life in Nazi-occupied Kyiv between 1941 and 1943. Blending fictionalized narrative with documentary realism, the author paints a stark and multifaceted portrait of Ukrainian daily life “under the Germans” — a subject long suppressed in Soviet literature.

Dokiya Humenna (1904–1996) was a Ukrainian writer and ethnographer born in the Kyiv region. Emigrating to Germany during WWII and later settling in the United States, she became a key voice of the Ukrainian literary diaspora. Her works often blended ethnographic observation with philosophical and national themes, exploring identity, trauma, and cultural survival.

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