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Petrushevska, Iryna

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Description
Creators
Iryna Petrushevska (b. 1919), Author
Volodymyr Maniak
, Recipient
Media Type
Text
Item Types
Correspondence
Envelopes
Transcriptions
Description

Letter sent from: Village of Shukaivoda, Khrystynivka raion, Cherkasy oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: unnamed location, likely the same as the author's mailing address, Village of Shukaivoda, Khrystynivka raion, Cherkasy oblast
Current location name: Village of Shukaivoda, Khrystynivka raion, Cherkasy oblast


Notes death of family members, confiscations of food and clothes, gathering of corpses and their dumping into common pit graves. Boltuchka (watery soup) was an incentive to work at the collective farm (kolhosp); even in the fall of 1933 "people ate worse than pigs do now."

Notes
Author's gender: Female
Author's name in Ukrainian: Ірина Прокопівна Петрушевська
Date of Original
28 December 1988
Date Of Event
1932-1933
Subject(s)
Personal Name(s)
Ірина Прокопівна Петрушевська ; Iryna Petrushevska
Local identifier
210 - Dropbox 4
Collection
Maniak Collection
Language of Item
Ukrainian
Geographic Coverage
  • Cherkasy, Ukraine
    Latitude: 48.85113 Longitude: 29.91186
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