Holodomor
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FAMINE YEARS. PART IV
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May 1932
On May 25, 1932, Svoboda received a lengthy letter from Hnat Porokhivsky, a man in Bucharest who had made contact with many of the refugees who had escaped to Rumania from Ukraine. He also collected news items from the Rumanian press about the peasant refugees who made it over to Bessarabia. In his letter, Mr. Porokhivsky says he had the opportunity to travel to the border near the Dnister. He cites the reasons Ukrainian peasants escaped to Rumania, on the basis of his talks with them. He writes that, according to the Rumanian press, which dutifully covered any news about Ukrainian refugees in the period between January 1 and March 13, it was recorded that the following number of people made it from Soviet-occupied Ukraine to Rumania: 315 men, 234 women, 283 boys and 223 girls.