Prikhnych, Stepan (b. 1929)
Description
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Description
- Letter sent from: Veselynivka, Baryshivka raion, Kyiv oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Skoptsi (Veselynivka), Baryshivka raion, Kyiv oblast
Current location name: Veselynivka, Baryshivka raion, Kyiv oblast
Stepan Prikhnych was born in 1929 and was the youngest of 9. Their family was considered middling peasants and all their grain was confiscated by the search brigade. His father and 7 of his siblings died in the Famine. Only his mother, he and his much older sister, born in 1914, survived. The sister would walk 18 km to Baryshivka to sell and trade for food whatever she could find in their house.
After 1933, people were “squeezed” by taxes of all kinds. He only finished 4 grades before the war began in 1941. After the war, he was working herding calves and then the oxen in a collective farm.
They suffered again during the 1946-47 famine, living off the ration of potatoes and 200 gm of bran given to field workers at the collective farm. Tax agents harassed them for arrears, while the brigade tried to get people to borrow from the state.
Because he never finished school, Stepan Prikhnych remained semi-literate.
- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: Степан Дмитрович Пріхніч
Category: Child; Semi-literate - Date of Original
- 25 January, 1989
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- WF-99
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Veselynivka, Baryshivka raion, Kyiv oblast:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 50.24237 Longitude: 31.27365
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Veselynivka, Baryshivka raion, Kyiv oblast:
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- Recommended Citation
- Holodomor Research & Education Consortium
