Hyryk, A.A.
Description
- Creators
- A.A.Hyryk (b. 1927), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Description
- Letter sent from: Zhovti Vody, Kirovohrad oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Zelena, Oleksandriia raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Current location name: Zelena, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast
Hyryk was 9 at the time of the Famine. Theirs was a family of 5. His three cousins and his grandparents died. 31 of the 63 houses in their village were left empty as a result of the Famine. At least 38 people were buried in one mass grave. A case of cannibalism was reported, when a mother killed her 2-year old son. People ate all the horses and cows, then all kinds of weeds, bark and rodents. - Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: А.А.Гурик
Category: Child - Date of Original
- 2 January 1989
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Mass burials
Burial
Mortality--Statistics
Holodomor
Cannibalism--Familial
Food requisitioning
Mortality--Mass
Grain requisitioning
Famines--Ukraine--History--Sources
Famine victims
Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933--Personal narratives
Burial brigades
Mortality--Family
Food substitutions
Requisitioning
Death and burial - Local identifier
- WF 112
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Zelene, Oleksandiia raion, Kirovohrad oblast:
Kirovohrad, Ukraine
Latitude: 48.45749 Longitude: 33.42212
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Zelene, Oleksandiia raion, Kirovohrad oblast:
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- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Holodomor Research & Education Consortium
