In Ukraine, Holodomor's Terrors Remain Fresh In The Minds Of Survivors - 0 views
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Everyone was growing up healthy and happy, until the collectivization.
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There was no flour. We dried herbs and plants and pounded them in a mortar, and then Mama would make these matorzhenyki.
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It began even before 1933," he said. "One day, someone would go to a neighbor to ask for salt...and the next day they'd already be saying that someone in that family ate somebody else, that they killed a younger child in order to feed the older ones."
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He told my mother to take care of the children, because he wasn't going to make it," Rozhko says, running a hand through his snowy white hair. "My hair turned grey immediately after that, even though I was 11. But the words of my father gave me strength. I could hardly drag my legs, but I began to walk everywhere. I would walk for 60 kilometers, just to find something for us to eat."