Levkivsky, Yukhym
Description
- Creators
- Levkivsky, Yukhym (b. 1919), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Description
- Letter sent from: Ploske, Tarashcha raion, Kyiv oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Ploske, Tarashcha raion, Kyiv oblast
Current location name: Ploske, Bila Tserkva raion, Kyiv oblast
Yukhym Levkivsky is a WWII veteran and a pensioner. He was 14 during the Famine. His body swelled up but he survived on mock foods: weeds, rawhide. He asked the head of the state farm to give him a job as a cowherd and he was taken on as a junior cowherd. This way he could get some milk, too.
He also recalls going with his older brother to collect some rotten potatoes in the fields and saw a gravedigger with a cart of dead bodies on the road. One person was still alive and begged him to spare his life, but the gravedigger threw him into the mass grade anyway. The man made his way out of the grave later and survived.
Levkivsky remembers a search brigade of two strangers and 10 locals who swept the family home of all foodstuffs but left a sack of oats after his brother begged them.
- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: Левківський Юхим Степанович
Category: Child; Semi-literate - Date of Original
- 22 November 1988
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- WF 89
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Ploske, Bila Tserkva raion, Kyiv oblast:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 50.54325 Longitude: 31.09596
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Ploske, Bila Tserkva raion, Kyiv 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
