Ukrainian Students Have a Prom Waltz in Front of Bombed Kharkiv School
June 8, 2022
There were pretty dresses and parents excitedly taking photos, but this is not the prom these Ukrainian students had imagined. School #134 was “heavily damaged” by bombing on Feb. 27. This school once taught 900 students, some of whom refused to let the tradition of a prom waltz crumble. The "last bell" is a Ukrainian custom where graduating students perform a waltz in front of the rest of the pupils, then listen to the school bells ring one last time.