Lviv Regional Children's Specialized Clinic
Lviv, Ukraine 2000

Less than a year after this photograph of Martushka was taken, The Children of Chornobyl Relief, who sponsored the documentary, went to the hospital searching for her. They had used this photograph to raise awareness of the plight of children in Ukraine suffering from cancer and planned to give her some sort of a scholarship. When they showed the doctors who had worked with Martushka the photo, they said they were too late, she had already passed away.


 

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