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Dr. Svitlana Sadova, a cardiologist and single mother to 16-year-old twins, spent two decades treating patients affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

“How could I have found myself in such a hopeless situation?” said Dr. Sadova, 45.

Viktoriya Sadova has been showing new arrivals to the city around the memorial museum in Lonsky Prison, which was a Polish, then a Nazi, then a Soviet detention center.

Ms. Sadova has also been collaborating with museums in Kyiv and Kharkiv, exfiltrating their collections to safer locations west.

In one particularly vivid entry in Journal, he records how the actress Marietta Sadova – always happy to take leading parts in his plays – was “choking with antisemitism”.