Letter sent from: Village of Popovychi, Kovel raion, Volyn oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Vasylivka, Dnipropetrovsk raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Current location name: Vasylivka, Dnipro raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Radchuk describes in general terms how the famine affected her. Her father died in 1921 of typhoid fever,
during the 1921-1923 famine. She was 13 in 1933. She remembers dead people in the streets and witnessed a
father of 8, covered in blood, being arrested for hiding 2 bags of grain.
She lived with her aunt, who worked in a collective farm, in the village of Vasylivka, Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
She enrolled in an agricultural school in December of 1933, 30 km away from the village. There was hardly any learning: the children were engaged in some inexplicable tasks in the fields, but they were fed some soup three times a day. She ended up getting frostbite on her legs and returned home to stay with her mom. She returned to a regular school in 7th grade, where she was also given some watery soup every day.
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