---
title: "Olga"
description: "“I feel a great pain. The house looks ruined from this side, but when you walk towards the house from the opposite side it looks like the building is solid.\""
url: "https://www.nrc.no/more-than-a-number-home/olga"
language: "en"
published: "2016-07-18T06:00:00Z"
modified: "2016-07-18T06:18:29Z"
---

# Olga

Published 18. Jul 2016

[More than a number](https://www.nrc.no/themes?categoryId=312)

This article was first published more than 10 years ago

“I feel a great pain. The house looks ruined from this side, but when you walk towards the house from the opposite side it looks like the building is solid."

"We have finished crying, but our soul still aches and suffers. I would never have thought this could happen. I just want it to be peaceful again, so that people stop shooting. So that is all of this will stop.”

*Olga and her granddaughter (12) are #MoreThanANumber (Location: Novotoshkivske, Ukraine)*

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