propriate. This method yields the greatest amount of qualitative information while en¬suring that we also obtain essential facts and statistical data. It helps the respondent feel at ease, an important consideration when dealing with such sensitive and potential¬ly traumatic material.
While the sample of interviews I have conducted personally is too small for detailed statistical analysis, I would like to point out that the following qualitative information remains consistent throughout:

a) The grain quotas placed on the farmers and the collectives were impossible to achieve,
b) Those who came to collect the grain took all food from the house and searched for hidden food,
c) There was mass death from starvation,
d) There were bands of homeless children,
e) Silence prevailed in the villages—no birds, dogs, or cats,

f) There were rumors of whole villages dying out,
g) There are numerous second-hand accounts of cannibalism, h) There was no famine in the R.S.F.S.R., and
i) The belief prevails that this was a deliberate act on the part of the government against the Ukrainian people.

I wish to conclude my remarks with three quotes from my interviews.

To see someone die of hunger is a terrible thing. Their eyes, their mouths wide open. All my brothers died that way, one after another, whining Yisty! Yisty ‘-Something to eat!
—anonymous interview #15; woman from Poltava region

The secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast came—Khatayevich. He was also the secretary to the Ukrainian Communist Party (he was in the Secretariat). He said, ‘Why do you have all these corpses here? Get them out of here! What’s the matter, can’t you bury them?./
‘With what? We have nothing to bury them with…,
Then take them over to that well there, and dump them all in together/ So that’s what we did.
-V. Shymko, village of Verbky

In our village this saying developed: ‘Na khati serp i molot, a v khati smert’ i holod’—The sickle and hammer hang on the house, but death and hunger reign in the house.
—anonymous interview #6; man from Rivne region

Mr. MARCHISHIN: Thank you very much, Sue Ellen. Are there any questions? (No response)