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by Ivan Kolomayets
Cover design based upon a sketch of a painting by Anatoliy Kolomayets
Kyiv, Ukraine, Fall, 2003. Second Edition in Ukrainian
Softback, 68 pages, ISBN 966-95993-5-0
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The book "Famine: the Memoirs of One Family" by Ivan Kolomayets
is dedicated to the memory of all innocent victims of the greatest tragedy
of the Ukrainian people - the artificial famine of the years 1932-1933
which was organized by the Moscow-Bolshevik invaders of Ukraine.
Ivan Kolomayets tells the story of the tragic events in the villages of the
Poltava region: the terrible inhuman living conditions experienced by
people exhausted by hunger, driven mad by hunger, unjustified arrests,
and deportations.
The memoirs are written by Ivan Kolomayets in a far away America,
where his life path has led him.
Coming out of this book is the painful recollection of the author about the
innocent compatriots tortured to death by hunger.
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The memoirs of Ivan Kolomayets presented to the readers are in their
second edition.
CONTENTS
George Kolomayets. Foreword\3
Marta Kolomayets-Yanevska. Foreword\5
It did not get quiet in our land\8
"You Damn World, You Damn Animals"\26
"Marusya's"
"Why Such a God's punishment..."\49
The second edition is financed with the funds of the Kolomayets family,
Yaroslav and Yaroslava Panchuk, and Mykola Kocherha. JSC "Obolon,"
Youth Public Organization "Youth of XXI Century"
EDITOR: The following biographical information was provided to us by
Marta Kolomayets, the granddaughter of Ivan Kolomayets.
Ivan Kolomayets was born in 1906 on the Kolomayets plantation/farmstead
in the Kobeliaky raion of Poltava oblast, the youngest of 11 children. He
married Maria Vasylenko in 1926 and during the famine escaped to the big
city, Dnipropetrovsk, where he worked at the railway station to provide for
his young bride and two sons, Anatoliy and George.
Having survived the holodomor of 1932-33 and knowing what Soviet
occupation meant, in the midst of the second world war, he packed up his
family, making his way to a DP camp near Nuremburg. Later the family
moved to Belgium where he and his son Anatoliy worked in the coal mines.
Ivan, his wife Maria and their younger son George moved to the United
States in 1951, first to Lyndora, Pennsylvania and in 1952 they settled in
Chicago. Until his retirement, Ivan worked at a plating company in Chicago.
Although he never obtained a higher education, Ivan always loved to write
and kept a daily journal. He enjoyed reading and composing poems for
various family celebrations. He died in Chicago in 1973.
Marta Kolomayets, the granddaughter of Ivan Kolomayets, is a Ukrainian
American who lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. She can be contacted at
pbnmartak@aol.com. Marta is presently translating her grandfather's
book into English. The English edition is expected to be published in late
2003 or early in 2004.
This material from the book was translated from the original Ukrainian
into English, and posted by the www.ArtUkraine.com Information Service
(ARTUIS), Washington, D.C. and Kyiv, Ukraine
FOR PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC USE ONLY
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