and this city of lviv, a crossroads of east and west, saw one of the worst pogroms directed atjews by the germans and ukrainian collaborators. this isn't about trying to draw exact historical parallels, and both russia and ukraine suffered terribly during the second world war, but if you're somebody who has a personal lived experience of that terrible time, then this is a period of increased anxiety, history casting a long, deep shadow. i met someone in lviv who grew up in the shadow of trauma. tatiana is 84 years old, a survivor of the holocaust.