Semenenko, N.A.

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N.A. Semenenko (b. 1910)

Volodymyr Maniak

, Recipient

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Letter sent from: Kalynivka, Makariv raion, Kyiv oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Tulchyn area, Vinnytsia oblast and Kyiv
Current location name: Tulchyn, Vinnytsia oblast and Kyiv

Semenenko was working in Kyiv in 1933, at the Shoemaking Factory #4, where she received a ration. Before that, she lived in the Tulchyn area. She was active in the drama club and was chair of the local Red Cross committee. She lived with her mother who was “old” and considered it a sin to join the collective farm. One day a search brigade came to their home and took away all their possessions and evicted them. Her mother told her to leave because those who stayed would die. This happened with her brother, who was killed at the front in 1944.

Semenenko found her way to the train station, moved to Kyiv and went to the unemployment center for a month, until she found a job as a janitor at a technical college. She was a good worker and a stakhanovite.

Semenenko mentions that in 1919-1923 she was going to school only 2-3 months a year, because there were 4 children in the family. They were poor and had only one parent.

She misses the embroidered blouses that she embroidered herself. These were taken from her, along with her Red Cross uniform with the red cross on the bag.

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