Parents' memories of Chernobyl
Parents' memories of Chernobyl
A mother and father’s memories of the Chernobyl disaster
A note from Natallia (the translator)
I don’t remember much about Chernobyl’s accident because I was very little — only 4 years old. My parents, aged 44 and 47 at the time of the accident, my 8 year old sister, and I lived in Gomel (Belarus), located less than 100 miles north of Chernobyl. So I asked my parents to write what they remember about the accident. My father was a professor at a local university,...
