Full Name in Ukrainian: Олександра Григорівна Подубієнко
Full Name in English: Oleksandra Podubienko
Data of Birth: Circa 1927
Place of Birth: Tsentralne
Raion: Snihurivka raion
Oblast: Odessa oblast (currently Mykolaiv oblast)
Country: Ukraine
Copy of original: Yes
Envelope: Yes
Number of pages: 4
Keywords: Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933--Personal narratives; Famines--Ukraine--History--Sources; Famine victims; Holodomor; family mortality; Голодомор; child; orphan; orphanage; family mortality; survival strategies; food substitution; WWII veteran.
Notes: Abridged letter is published in 33: holod. Narodna Knyha-Memorial book, Kyiv: Radiansky pysmennyk, 1991, p. 407.
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Oleksandra Podubienko was six years old in 1933. Her grandparents and parents died of starvation during the Holodomor. She and her younger brother were placed in an orphanage at the collective farm named after Stalin in the village of Vysunsk (Baturyn), currently in Bereznehovate raion of Mykolaiv oblast (Odesa oblast in 1933), with 15 or so other orphans.
Oleksandra remembers her mother mixing dry beetroot peels with chaff to make pancakes to feed the children. Podubienko’s mother had lived until the first grain harvest, when the collective farm ground some grain to make flour and bake bread to give to the people in the collective farm. But by that time, her mother was already swollen and died shortly.
