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      Letter sent from: Village of Zeleny Kut, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: unspecified location, likely the same as mailing address: Village of Zeleny Kut, Myrhorod raion, Kharkiv Current location name: Village of Zeleny Kut, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast Author Oleksandra Tulynska was born in 1923 ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Rozhniv, Kosiv raion, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: unknown location in Soviet Ukraine Current location name: unknown Fedir Motsno writes a survival story of the famine as told to him by Andrii Kopot, with whom he ended up in the same hospital ...

      Letter sent from: Reshetylivka raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in (1932-1933): Village of Veremiivka, Hradyzk raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Veremiivka, Chornobai raion, Cherkasy oblast Hryhorii Zobenko recounts a memory when children with whom he was playing, Hrysha and Mariiechka, were cannibalized by their mother and ...

      Letter sent from: The Village of Sokolova, Khmelnyk raion, Vinnytsia oblast Describes events in 1932-1933 in: The Village of Sokolova, Khmelnyk raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: The Village of Sokolova, Khmelnyk raion, Vinnytsia oblast Ishchuk writes few words about the famine—only that he had to survive it at early ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Shyshalivka (now depopulated due to Chernobyl disaster), Narodychy raion, Zhytomyr oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Rudnia-Ososhnia (now depopulated due to Chernobyl disaster), Bazaar raion, Kyiv oblast Current location name: Narodychy raion, Zhytomyr oblast The author does not provide any biographic details ...

      Letter sent from: Verkhniosadove, Sevastopol, Crimea Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in : Vivsianyky, Koziatyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Vivsianyky, Koziatyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Hnatyuk was born 1922 and lived in the village until 1951. Theirs was a family of four, no father. The famine left a lasting ...

      Letter sent from: Chenelivtsi, Derazhnia raion, Khmelnytsk oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Dubova, Lityn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Dubova, Zhmerynka raion, Vinnytsia oblast Vasylchenko was a child in a family of 4 and had one brother. Everyone survived. Details the stages of requisitioning that their family ...

      Letter sent from: Bilashky, Pohrebyshche raion, Vinnytsia oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Bilashky, Pohrebyshche raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Bilashky, Pohrebyshche raion, Vinnytsia oblast Zatokovenko was 62 at the time of writing, meaning she was born around 1927. She focuses on the persistent harassment of her family, ...

      Letter sent from: Krasnopilka, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Describes events in 1932-1933 in: Krasnopilka, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Krasnopilka, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Horomovy offers no date of birth, but mentions that he was a Komsomol member at the time of the Holodomor, from a family of ...

      Letter sent from: Voroniv[tsi], Murovani Kurylivtsi raion, Vinnytsia oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Voronivtsi, Murovani Kurylivtsi raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Voronivtsi, Murovani Kurylivtsi raion, Vinnytsia oblast Mykhailo Lisovy was about 15 at the time of the famine. The family of 6 included a 56 year-old mother ...

      Letter sent from: Krutohorb, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Krutohorb, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Krutohorb, Haisyn raion, Vinnytsia oblast Koreniuk was a member of a search brigade but could not stand people crying during the searches and ran away. For this he ...

      Letter sent from: Pryvitne, Murovani Kurylivtsi raion, Vinnytsia oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Khrinivka, Kopaihorod raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Pryvitne, Murovani Kurylivtsi raison, Vinnytsia oblast Lysovsky shares how excessive taxation led to people being dekurkulized and dispossessed. Relatives were threatened with retaliation if they took in ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Matviivka, Semenivka raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Matviivka, Semenivka raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Matviivka, Semenivka raion, Poltava oblast Stepan Semeniuta takes issue with the excessive taxes that were imposed on peasants, both in kind and ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Kremenchuk, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Lypianka, Karlivka raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Lypianka, Karlivka raion, Poltava oblast Olha Orlova was 14 at the time of the famine and lived with her parents and four siblings in ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Popove, Novi Sanzhary raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Novi Sanzhary raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Novi Sanzhary raion, Poltava oblast P. Tkachenko wrote in his memoirs that he came from a family of 7. He was 14 at the time ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Maiakivka, Orzhytsia raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Zolotukhy, Orzhytsia raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Zolotukhy, Orzhytsia raion, Poltava oblast Ivan Semonenko’s family were middling peasants but were dekurkulized anyway. When their family land was taken by ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Tsipky, Hadiach raion, Poltava oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Tsipky, Hadiach raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Tsipky, Hadiach raion, Poltava oblast Hryhorii Shanko sends a number of short poems dedicated to the famine and war, including a poem ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Vyshchyi Bulatets, Lubny raion, Poltava Oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Vyshchyi Bulatets, Lubny raion, Kharkiv Oblast Current location name: Village of Vyshchyi Bulatets', Lubny raion, Poltava Oblast Sydor Kholiava was a child of about 8 during the famine. His extended family ...

      Letter sent from: Nadvirna raion, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Olenivka, Vinnytsia raion, Vinnytsia oblast Current location name: Village of Olenivka, Vinnytsia raion, Vinnytsia oblast Ivan Haievyk's letter is addressed to Larysa Shakhova of Silski Visti. Haievyk had previously sent a piece of writing to ...

      Letter sent from: Village of Kybyntsi, Myrhorod raion, Poltava Oblast Describes events in (in 1932-1933): Village of Kybyntsi, Myrhorod raion, Kharkiv oblast Current location name: Village of Kybyntsi, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast A 24-page literary account of the author's family surviving the Famine. Yarmolenko remembers children dying. Describes his family’s ...