Oleksandra Leontieva, 96, was an eight-year-old peasant half-orphan in 1932-1933 when her south-Ukrainian village was hit by the Holodomor, the genocidal famine of Ukrainians by the Soviet authorities which killed millions. She recollects how her family survived by resorting to eating river tortoises, gophers, various unedible plants, and how her mother used to dig out grain stored by field mice in their holes. This story is one of many eyewitness accounts gathered in the expeditions of the Kyiv-based Holodomor Museum.
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EuroMaidan Press: Voices of Holodomor witnesses from Mykolaiv region
People attend a commemorative ceremony for victims of Holodomor in Kyiv on Nov. 28, 2020.
