US Edition'Skin And Bones': Holodomor Survivor Shares Childhood Memories From Stalin-Era Famine
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DW spoke with a 100-year-old Ukrainian woman who survived the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in a village in Cherkasy Oblast. She talked about how her family managed to survive then and what she thinks about the Russian war against Ukraine.
'Skin And Bones': Holodomor Survivor Shares Childhood Memories From Stalin-Era Famine
Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old resident of Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, spoke with RFE/RL about how her family survived the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933. Each year, on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine remembers those who died in the man-made famine that occurred when Soviet authorities seized food to force peasants to join collective farms.
The Ministry of the Interior, in cooperation with the Holodomor Museum, has digitized and made public thousands of criminal cases related to the actions of Soviet torturers.
Statement from President Joe Biden Remembering the Holodomor
Ninety-one years ago, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet regime engineered the Holodomor, a forced and deliberate famine that killed millions of Ukrainians. We remember the men, women, and children who perished during the Holodomor. We also honor the survivors of the Holodomor and their descendants who, despite Stalin’s efforts to repress Ukraine’s national identity, have built a free, independent, and democratic Ukraine. Today, as we mark the solemn…
The family of the presenter Grigory Reshetnik showed how on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor they spent the day with their children TSN.ua (news 1+1)
Yevdokia Shevchenko shared her memories in an interview with DW.When the Holodomor of 1932-1933 began, she was 9 years old. Evdokia Shevchenko had six brothers and a mother with his father. Father Semen Vakulovich fought in the First World War and returned with a disability. The family of Evdokia had a considerable farm: a cow, a calf, pigs, geese. She said that they had little land, so they were not considered turkeys, and when collectivization…
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