Budenny, Ivan
Description
- Creators
- Ivan Budenny (b. circa 1926), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Transcriptions
- Description
Letter sent from: Village of Kekyne, Sumy raion, Sumy oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Village of Kekyne, Sumy raion, Kharkiv oblast
Current location name: Village of Kekyne, Sumy raion, Sumy oblast
The author was 7 at the time of the famine.
He writes that almost half the village died in 1933 (out of 324 households), remembers that some people were "drying out" while others were swollen from starvation.
He describes disrupted burial rites, people buried in their yards or in mass graves, barely covered with soil. Burial brigades would collect even those still alive and recorded them because their ration of watery soup-broth depended on the headcount.
Describes mock foods his mother would cook, how good it tasted at the time, people tearing apart dead horses for food, and cases of cannibalism and people selling food made of human meat.
Ukrainian transcription is available.- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Category: Child
Author's name in Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Буденний - Date of Original
- December 11, 1988
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Іван Степанович Буденний ; Ivan Budenny
- Local identifier
- 154/260 - Dropbox 4
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Sumy, Ukraine
Latitude: 51.07254 Longitude: 34.56803
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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
