Tag #128804 - Interview #77955 (Semyon Falk)

I remember the famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 [13]. Since our father worked in a governmental office he received food packages and the famine didn't have that big an impact on us. We also grew vegetables and kept livestock and our family didn't starve. I remember this: I was five years old and went to kindergarten. There were talks about children being kidnapped and eaten. I don't know if that really happened, but there was cannibalism during the time of the famine. My mother or father took me to kindergarten and brought me home in the evening; although I used to go there on my own before because this kindergarten was located in our street. I remember the feeling of fear.