farm life. One day, we went out to the field in the collective farm for the weeding of sugar beets.
The women collective farm workers who were weeding the sugar beets were talking among themselves, that their children are missing somewhere. One woman was saying, my son, my little son has disappeared, and no matter where I look I cannot find him.
Another woman, her neighbor who was with her, I saw your son as he was playing with little Tolya, and Tolya called your little son into his home, and I did not see your son exit. This woman who lost her son immediately went to the head of the collective farm, telling him that her son had gone into Tolya’s house but has not returned from there.
The head of the collective farm immediately removed the woman from the field, and went to the state farm, took the head soviet, took a few policemen with him, and all of them went to Tolya’s house.
Tolya was not home. Tolya everyday went to work. He was about 23 years old. As an interested bystander, I went along with the head of the village soviet and the other individuals to Tolya’s house.
Tolya was brought from the field, and a search was instigated. They found a kind of meat dish, meat dish of jelly cooked with human meat, as well as much raw meat in the storehouse, as well as the innards of a human body and the head of the little boy which had been cut off and covered over.
They called to the regional police which immediately arrived after an hour. Upon questioning, Tolya coldly admitted to having killed the little boy, but he also said he had killed his sister, and he himself did not wish to die of hunger, because his own two children had died. I was a witness to this tragedy.
The police arrested Tolya as well as several other individuals, including two women, who had been connected with the practice of cannibalism. After this incident, from Kiev, there came a whole boxcar load of flour.
Senator DeCONCINI: Mr. K., excuse me, I hate to interrupt you, because your tes¬timony is indeed very interesting. We have a number of witnesses here who would like to be heard. I’m not sure we’re going to be able to get to all of them. I want to assure you that any statements you want to give us in addition will be accepted; if you could finalize your statements, we will try to get to these other witnesses. We only have 15 more minutes.
TESTIMONY OF MR. JACOB K. (continued)
My mother and brother died, and after attempts to talk about this tragedy, I myself was sentenced to serve a prison term in a prison. In the village in 1933, 70 percent of the population died.
Senator DeCONCINI: I want to thank you, and I’m very apologetic for having to in¬terrupt you. That’s why we asked the statements to be presented to the Commission so that we have a chance to be sure we can get everything in, and we certainly will take any further statements you may have. Are there any questions?