Yavtushenko, S.H.
Description
- Creators
- S.H. Yavtushenko (d.b. cir 1920s), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Description
- Letter sent from: Nahirne, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Nahirne, Oleksandriia raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast
Current location name: Nahirne, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast
Yavtushenko was a child during the Famine. He remembers looking for snails, birds and pests to survive.
His father and brother were killed during a search brigade raid. The father resisted when the brigade came the second time to take away the remaining 5 sacks of grain and the brother stood up to the assailants.
Now only the mother and 6 children were left, and then 4 brothers and the mother died of starvation. Only Yavtushenko and his sister survived.
Yavtushenko witnessed his neighbor and her daughter killing two children in the woods to cannibalize them. He says the woman’s son treated him to some meat that was probably from the killed children.
- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: С.Г. Явтушенко
Category: Child - Date of Original
- 4 April 1989
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- WF 114
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Nahirne, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast:
Kirovohrad, Ukraine
Latitude: 49.08097 Longitude: 33.10122
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Nahirne, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast:
- 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
