Holodomor
For the record: eyewitness testimony before Commission on Famine. Part III
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(The Ukrainian Weekly, December 21, 1986, No. 51, Vol. LIV)
Following are excerpts of testimony by eyewitnesses to the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine who appeared at the Chicago regional hearing of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine on November 7. Halyna B., Palatine, Ill.:
I was born in the vicinity of Chernihiv-Kulykivsky district, in the village of Muvaveika. When I was 8 years old, my father died of tuberculosis in the 28th year of his young life.