Buriak, Vasyl
Description
- Creators
- Vasyl Buriak (date of birth unknown), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Image
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Transcriptions
- Description
Letter sent from: Stepanivka, Vinnytsia raion, Vinnytsia oblast
Describes events in 1932-1933 in: Dubovets, Nemyriv raion, Vinnytsia oblast
Current location name: Dubovets, Nemyriv raion, Vinnytsia oblast
Buriak mentions that there was enough grain and other foodstuff in 1932, but this was taken away and rotted at the railway station while people were starving. He reports the deaths of entire families, names them: Klymenko, Varychenko, Storozhenko. He also describes survival strategies, like eating weeds and mussels from the Buh River. He says the famine was created artificially by Stalin “the torturer” (kat).
Ukrainian transcription available- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: Василь Афанасійович Буряк - Date of Original
- January 24, 1989
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Василь Афанасійович Буряк ; Vasyl Buriak
- Local identifier
- 1(93)- WF
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Dubovets, Nemyriv raion, VInnytsia oblast:
Vinnyts'ka, Ukraine
Latitude: 49.05624 Longitude: 28.73172
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Dubovets, Nemyriv raion, VInnytsia oblast:
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Holodomor Research & Education Consortium
