Swietlan Nicholas (Nick) Kraczyna, studio arts professor at SU Florence since 1998, was born in 1940 in the ethnically Russian part of Kamien-Kashirsk, Poland, near the Russian border. Today, that same town (Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is part of Ukraine.
In this interview Nick recalls his childhood memories of war in Eastern Europe and the disconcerting similarities with what is happening in Ukraine today.