bigroe218

My grandma was in Kharkiv during the Holodomor. She passed away recently, but when she was up to it, she would tell us her memories from that period. She would speak of starving peasants coming in to the city begging for food, but she had to refuse them because she had little food herself. She remembers seeing piles of dead bodies by the railroad tracks. She even told this story of her father and following a dying horse around town, when it finally died the community tore it apart, her father brought home a leg and they made soup out of it for weeks. My grandmother says she survived it because they had a sunflower plant whose seeds they were able to eat daily. The memories of this time period haunted my grandmother for the rest of her life, she often woke up screaming in the middle of the night, and also becuase of the lessons she learned during the Holodomor she never wasted food, not even stale bread.

Before she passed, I was able to record her life story, have you ever written down your experiences from that period? And if not would you ever consider doing it?

TLDR; my grandmother also was in the Holodomor and suffered from nightmares for the rest of her life.