Rovenko, Liubov
Description
- Creators
- Liubov Rovenko (née Bahryn) (b. сir 1926), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Transcriptions
- Description
Letter sent from: Vradiivka, Mykolaiv oblast
Describes events in 1932-1933 in: [unclear, probable location] Velyka Vradiivka raion Odesa oblast
Current location name: Vradiivka raion, Mykolaiv oblast
Describes a story of survival in the context of major family mortality.
Her father went to look for food, went missing, was likely killed. After her two brothers died, she went looking for her father and ended up in an orphanage, but ran back home because children were dying in the orphanage.
She survived with the help of a neighbor.
Ate faux foods.
Writes that burial brigade was keen to pick up those still living and wanted to take her but the neighbor stepped in and would not let them.- Notes
- Author's gender: Female
Author's name in Ukrainian: Любов Пилипівна Ровенко (Багрин)
Category: Child - Date of Original
- 8 January 1989
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Любовь Филиповна Ровенко ; Любов Пилипівна Ровенко ; Любов Багрин ; Liubov Rovenko ; Liubov Bahryn
- Local identifier
- 202 - Dropbox 4
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Russian
- Geographic Coverage
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Mykolaiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 47.86195 Longitude: 30.59195
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- 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
