“Nostalgia Leads Nowhere”
Object Day Dresden: Elina Klyuchenko
“Show us your story!” – Beginning in 2017, the Jewish participants in the Object Days project have answered this invitation by recounting their migration stories.
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Elina Klyuchenko, born 28 August 1962, in Luhansk, USSR (now Ukraine). In Germany since 2001.
Mechanical engineer, teaches computer and technology courses in the Dresden community.
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Stephan Pramme
My father gave me this set of drawing instruments with a case in 1980. I worked with the instruments as an engineer in Ukraine for fifteen years. I was always very careful with them and took them with me when we immigrated to Germany in 2001. I had high hopes that I would be able to continue practicing my profession here, but unfortunately these hopes never came true. Now the instruments are a symbol of my past life, of my job, which I liked a lot, of my hopes, which I placed in the future. But nostalgia leads nowhere. It’s not constructive to ask yourself whether you made the right decision, especially for an engineering family.
Object Days: Dresden (7)