Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933

The parents were engaged in private farming as individuals. Before Rozkurkuluvanniya (kulak's Eviction) nothing was told to us further to reasons for decision on our eviction. Without court and the consequences all of property had been confiscated, bleeding us white. They deprived family in a collective farm Bolshevik, now (Shevchenko)* from the most necessary, first of all from a horse, the cow with a small calf, all remnant, harness, two wooden barns, stabling, shore, building and facilities well made of wood, covered with iron. http://famine32.blogspot.com Request Tragedy of ousting has happened to our family on December 19, 1932. Ousting local brigade night called at a house at two o'clock. The brigade of 6 men, among them: Nosik P, Babich Fiodor, Konuc Ivan, Lisenko Kirilo, Kononenko Ivan, Schmurko Oleksandr (the father's brother - in - law). We had already been sleeping when they entered by force into the house. They came with clubs, leaving the doors open. It was very cold outdoors. They alarmed us and ruled to put only clothing on (mother put two skirts on, however they disconnected her with one). They carried four children away and put them on the sleighs. Moreover, mother was with infant in arms. She held him close to her bosom. They ordered parents out, seat them near the children, removed downhill Hmarivka, and chucked out into the snowdrifts. Parents Shmurko Ievdokia Markivna, born in 1887 Shmurko Ilia Gurievich, born in 1897 Children Anastasia Illinichna, born in 1919 Stefan Ilich, born in1922 Marina Illinichna, born in 1926 Ievdokia Illinichna, born in 1930 Ivan Ilich, born in 1932 The parents were engaged in private farming as individuals. Before Rozkurkuluvanniya (kulak's Ousting) nothing was told to us further to reasons for decision on our ousting. Without court and the consequences all of property had been confiscated, bleeding us white. They confiscated family in a collective farm Bolshevik, now (Shevchenko)* from the most necessary, first of all from a horse, the cow with a small calf, all remnant, harness, two wooden barns, stabling, shore, building and facilities well made of wood, covered with iron. The property was sold out on bids, however a wooden house covered with iron (not yet returned), still reminds fellow-villagers about the orphans of collectivization. They call it Shmurko's House. A teacher lives in the house. The family came apart at the seams between - people. Father Shmurko Ilia Gurievich was evicted to work at a sugar-beet state farm in Chupakhovka, and sick with quinsy died in 1933 in spring. Mother Shmurko Ievdokia Markivna took away five children to khutor Puelulepenku to work at a collective farm "Nezamoszhnuk" for the fellow-villagers, kindly sheltered her in an empty house. First we wandered without a place to sleep, than a dug-out was a shelter for smaller, grandfather's stable in a hay for older, and a house served as overnight shelter, for the people were very much afraid to admit us to stay in, under the strict commandment issued to frighten sympathizers. Mother went to work at a collective farm, the elder children, 15 years old Anastasia had already worked in a part on beet cultivation, and the brother Stefan shepherded. I Marina went to work as a farm laborer. Growing Ievdokia and Vania worked at a collective farm also. God altogether knows how we have survived. There was neither clothes, nor bed no meal, we used acacia blossom, dock for food, baked great nettle biscuits. Everyone was swollen without food, rickety. The abdomens with black entrails starved transparent. We slept on a straw, there was no even a blanket on, only empty table and no furniture in the house. But for all difficulties, we have survived. The brother Stephan is the WW II soldier. After the war Stephan and Anastasia worked as tractor operators at a collective farm, named after Shevchenko. Stephan is a pensioner and Anastasia died in 1990. Brother Ivan Ilich has completed vocational school and working in Kremenchuk now. I, Marina Illinichna and Ievdokia worked in public catering establishment, and now we are pensioners, we live in town Zinkiv. All this can be confirmed by the eyewitnesses, the fellow-villagers which are still alive. I ask Commission to make a decision, to return our «native nest»-the house, where we were born the—beloved children—instead of kulak's degenerates an alias. We have received neither education no marriage portion, went to school barefooted until frosts, and had neither book no pencil, while we had better studied, became Young Pioneers or members of the Komsomol. The memory for the parents and family is the most costly for us and there is no other compensation that could heal "wounds" outraged to the family.* MARINA FESENKO *At present agro firm "BURAT" Please find it continued on: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JfG5nvXZAWo