Vasylyna Yarovenko, née Kashchuk, was a ten-year-old peasant girl in 1932-1933, when her village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of Ukrainians by the Soviet authorities, which killed millions. She recollects how the authorities confiscated all food, much furniture, and even winter clothes; how she survived on foraging edible herbs and school breakfasts from fodder beet; how her fellow villages died of starvation. This story is one of many eyewitness accounts gathered in the expeditions of the Holodomor Museum.
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On Nov. 23, 2019, Ukrainians light candles and place flowers during a memorial ceremony near a monument to the victims of the Holodomor, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass starvation of at least four million Ukrainians from 1932-1933.
