Klymenko, Viktor
Description
- Creators
- Viktor Klymenko (b.1934), Author
- Volodymyr Maniak, Recipient
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Types
- Correspondence
- Envelopes
- Description
- Letter sent from: Semerenky, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast
Letter describes events in 1932-1933 in: Semerenky, Myrhorod raion, Kharkiv oblast
Current location name: Semerenky, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast
Viktor Klymenko was born in 1934, after the famine. He tells the stories about people who survived the Holodomor that he learned from his relatives and fellow-villagers. His father was in charge of the collective farm, doing his best to provide some meals for the villagers to prevent them from dying. For this, he was detained and put on trial, but acquitted.
Two subjects are prominent in Klymenko's account.
First is ditties that his grandmother taught him that contained satire on Soviet rule and the conditions of the peasantry.
Second is the excessive zeal of the activists of the search brigades who abused their power to confiscate as much as possible from people who were not rich. Klymenko names a few of such people and mentions that activists and those who were privileged before the war turned Nazi collaborators and were in turn executed by the Soviet authorities for their treason.
- Notes
- Author's gender: Male
Author's name in Ukrainian: Віктор Павлович Клименко
Category: Secondary; Collector of stories; Perpetrators - Date of Original
- 11 December 1988
- Date Of Event
- 1932-1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- A -14 (242)
- Collection
- Maniak Collection
- Language of Item
- Ukrainian
- Geographic Coverage
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Olefirivka, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast:
Poltava, Ukraine
Latitude: 50.07562 Longitude: 33.97106 -
Semerenky, Myrhorod raion, Poltava oblast:
Poltava, Ukraine
Latitude: 50.06211 Longitude: 34.01792
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Olefirivka, Myrhorod raion, Poltava 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
