The Quiet That Remains
Across revolution, famine, occupation and exile, The Quiet That Remains traces one Ukrainian family’s search for footing in a century of upheaval. Through parish records, photographs and letters, it rebuilds a lineage erased by empire and silence – a quiet history of endurance told from the bottom up.
Praise “Meticulous, humane, and quietly powerful.”
What it’s about
The book follows the Skliar family of Poltava from the last days of the Cossack Hetmanate through Stalin’s terror, Nazi occupation and displacement to post-war exile in Britain. Drawing on original archives and testimonies, it explores how ordinary people preserve memory when speaking becomes dangerous – and what is lost when fear and empire silence a family line.
- Endurance and compromise under empire
- How families remember – and when they fall silent
- History told through documents, ritual and the everyday
Extract
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About the author
Ben Skliar-Ward is a writer and historian based in the UK. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and works in financial regulation. The Quiet That Remains is his first book – a study of survival, silence, and the endurance of meaning across generations. Read more at skliar-ward.com.