Motsno, Fedir (Kopot Andrii)

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 during WWII. The locale is unclear.

Andrii's family—a wife and two children—was on the verge of dying out: his son died, and the parents kept the boy’s body, cut it up, preserved the meat in salt and cooked some broth with it for their daughter, who survived. They could not eat it themselves. At some point, Andrii wandered away from home to die somewhere else, but ended up finding some wheat grain and dry peas in a hamster’s nest. He brought home the grain and peas and saved his family's life.

Ukrainian transcription available.