Full Name in Ukrainian: Володимир Федорович Закатін
Full Name in English: Volodymyr Zakatin
Data of Birth: unknown
Place of Birth: Soldatsky Khutir (likely Soldatske)
Raion: Petrivske raion (currently Oleksandriia raion)
Oblast: Dnipropetrovsk oblast (currently Kirovohrad oblast)
Country: Ukraine
Copy of original: Yes
Envelope: No
Number of pages: 2
Keywords: Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933--Personal narratives; Famines--Ukraine--History--Sources; Famine victims; Holodomor; family mortality; Голодомор; search brigades; perpetrators; family mortality; survival strategies; mass mortality; child labour; names of victims.
Notes: Abridged letter is published in 33: holod. Narodna Knyha-Memorial book, Kyiv: Radiansky pysmennyk, 1991, p. 407.
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Volodymyr Zakatin recalls the events of the Holodomor in the village of Soldatsky Khutir (likely the village of Soldatske), Petrove raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast (currently Soldatske, Oleksandriia raion, Kirovohrad oblast).
Volodymyr recalls that almost all residents of Soldatsky Khutir died during the Holodomor. He survived because he was working as trainee at a post office in the village of Hannivka (likely Kryvy Rih raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast) at the time. His two sisters worked in a Soviet farm (radhosp) in Ternivka (likely Pavlohrad raion, Dnipropetrovsk oblast). Zakatin and his sisters supported their mother but whenever the search brigades came and saw her having a meal, they would take the food away from her.
Zakatin lists names of 23 heads of households in the village of Soldatsky Khutir, usually also with their wives and children, that died during the Holodomor.
