'Skin And Bones': Holodomor Survivor Shares Childhood Memories From Stalin-Era Famine
Maryna Shymanska, a 100-year-old resident of Ukraine's Zhytomyr region, spoke with RFE/RL about how her family survived the Holodomor, a Stalin-era famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933. Each year, on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine remembers those who died in the man-made famine that occurred when Soviet authorities seized food to force peasants to join collective farms.