Manzhos (Zdasiuk), Vira

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Vira Manzhos (Zdasiuk) (b. 1926), Author

Volodymyr Maniak

, Recipient

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Correspondence

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Letter sent from: Poltava
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Kherson, Odesa oblast
Current location name: Kherson, Kherson oblast

Vira was 7 in 1933. She had a 5-year old brother and her mother had just given birth to another child. They lived in Kherson at the time. Her father had a job but was not paid.

She describes harsh conditions at the hospital, where there was no food or heating. Someone grabbed 3 rubles that Vira was given to take to her mother from her hand while she was walking on the street. People could grad food from another persons's hand if that person was eating something on the street.

A family friend who work as a train conductor came to visit the family and brought some bread. When Vira's mother returned from the hospital and children told her that they had bread, she decided that they "lost their minds" (were delusional).
She condemns activists who were living by depriving other people of food and refers to the famine as something worse than war.

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