Robin Knightly is the nom de plume of a writer whose mother was born in eastern Ukraine, and father in western Ukraine. Both parents survived the Ukrainian genocide orchestrated by the regime in Moscow. The 1932-1933 famine was executed by confiscating the wheat harvests, a seizure that took the lives of six million Ukrainian children, women and men. The writer’s grandfather was humiliated in one of the 1930’s show trials, dragged off and murdered. Both parents escaped to Australia as refugees on forged papers. The writer was born here.