HK: Many people died. I can’t tell you. During the Famine, whole villages died. They were closed off and nobody was let in. And they buried the dead. In my family my two sisters and a brother died.

Hryhoriy Kovalyov

Date of birth: 11 February 1918

Place of birth: Yankivtsi village, Kyiv oblast

Witnessed Famine in: Yankivtsi village, Kyiv oblast

Arrived in Canada:

Current residence: Vancouver

Date and place of interview:  24 February 2009, Vancouver

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