Romenskaya Madonna(1973)

movie - first aired/released 1973-01-01 - 26 min

Documentary

Directed by Anatoly Slesarenko

Oleksandra Derevskaya was a Ukrainian war nurse and foster mother who, together with her husband, adopted 65 children, of whom she raised 48 to adulthood. She worked as the director of an orphanage, and was posthumously awarded the title of "Mother-Heroine".