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 8, with 6 kids. He describes how the excessive grain requisitioning affected his family, led to mass death in his family and in the village. Writes about how he survived. He sends a brief note and two clippings from the raion newspaper Trybuna pratsi that published his memoir.
His father travelled to Russia, where he worked for some time and brought back some food. But by spring 1933, Hromovy’s three sisters died, followed later by the mother and father. He got jobs at radio stations, where he was given some rations and pay in kind, but irregularly. He then worked briefly in the Donbas but
came back because his mother had died.
In his village, over 50 per cent, 1,000 people, died.
As a teacher he was forced to collect tax arrears in order to get paid: “All teachers were.” Someone gave him a lift one winter but dumped him in the middle of nowhere to die in freezing temperature after learning that he was a Komsomol member.
He works as a museum director.
Ukrainian transcription available.
