Holodomor Digital Collections

Yermoshenko, Volodymyr (Vladimir)

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Description
Creators
Volodymyr (Vladimir) Yermoshenko (b. cir 1916), Author
Volodymyr Maniak
, Recipient
Media Type
Text
Item Types
Correspondence
Envelopes
Transcriptions
Description

Letter sent from: Village of Hanno-Leontovycheve (Horoshanka), Ustynivka raion, Kirovohrad oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933: unnamed location, likely the same as mailing address: Anno-Leontovycheve (Horoshanka), Ustynivka raion, Odesa oblast
Current location name: Village of Hanno-Leontovycheve (Horoshanka), Ustynivka raion, Kirovohrad oblast



Vladimir (Volodymyr) Yermoshenko writes in Russian. He was 17 at the time of the famine; his family had died and he worked as a gravedigger in a burial brigade to stay alive. He received a bowl of soup a day for interring "like animals" 61 people. He did not do a very good job at it because he was too weak. To survive, he ate dead horses, frogs, etc.

He blames the famine on those who wanted to make a career by taking from people their last bowl of soup.

He mentions that he was imprisoned for 4 years in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Russia) and served in the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War (Second World War). He says he has documents about his uncle who was a Bolshevik party activist along with Lenin and Krupskaia and has a memoir written in a notebook about 1931-1933 and 1938.

Ukrainian transcription is available.

Notes
Author's gender: Male
Category: Teenager
Author's name in Russian: Владимир Захарович Ермошенко
Date of Original
7 January, 1989
Date Of Event
1932-1933
Subject(s)
Personal Name(s)
Владимир Захарович Ермошенко ; Володимир Єврмошенко ; Volodymyr Yermoshenko ; Vladimir Yermoshenko
Local identifier
152/258 - Dropbox 4
Collection
Maniak Collection
Language of Item
Russian
Geographic Coverage
  • Kirovohrad, Ukraine
    Latitude: 47.95507 Longitude: 32.53674
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