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During the famine in 1932-33 [15] my mother received rationed food that she shared with us.
I remember the period of famine well. I was responsible for buying bread. I usually stayed overnight in a wooden booth at the market to be the first in the line. Once adult men pushed me out of the line from the store and though I asked them to let me in they didn’t. On that day our family didn’t get any bread and we were hungry. The bread was sticky and gray. I had the Botkin’s disease recently, and had stomach ache after eating this bread. At times we had little buns at school and one teacher who was our neighbor gave me hers.
I remember the period of famine well. I was responsible for buying bread. I usually stayed overnight in a wooden booth at the market to be the first in the line. Once adult men pushed me out of the line from the store and though I asked them to let me in they didn’t. On that day our family didn’t get any bread and we were hungry. The bread was sticky and gray. I had the Botkin’s disease recently, and had stomach ache after eating this bread. At times we had little buns at school and one teacher who was our neighbor gave me hers.
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Kherson
Khersonska oblast
Ukraine
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Zinoviy Rukinglaz
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