The picture of hunger was the same in Poltava as it was in the other cities in the Uk¬raine at that time. This is the main aspect of my testimony.

Senator DeCONCINI: Thank you very much.
Mr. PYLYPENKO: I had a wife and two children and received 200 grams of bread a day. We also had a plot of land near where we were, so we could plant a small gar¬den, and we were in the main saved through the produce from the private garden, the little plot
Senator DeCONCINI: Thank you very much. Any questions? Thank you very much for the testimony. Let’s try to get at least two more witnesses here, Mike and Halyna Kuzin. Thank you very much. If you would like to come forward, we will be glad to take your testimony. We have four or five more minutes.

TESTIMONY OF MR. MICHAEL KUZIN OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA

I was born in Ukraine in the Poltava region. I was swollen twice from hunger. My father was taken in ‘37 because of the period, and to this day, I know not what became of him.

We were thrown out of our house. Everything was taken from us and were taken beyond the borders of the village. Every week people would come to see if we had yet died. In 1930, father fled to the Donbas region and took us from the house where 20 other families who had been removed from the villages were living.

So we lived in Donbas where many people who had been dekulakhed had fled, and with my own eyes, I saw how at the stations, dozens and dozens of individuals lay dead.

We lived in Donbas until ‘37 when my father was taken. This is all I can say, be¬cause I have nothing else written.

TESTIMONY OF MS. HALYNA KUZIN OF PHOENIX, ARIZONA

I was born in Ukraine in 1922. My parents died of hunger, my father, mother, brother, sister. I and my sister were the only ones left. I was then taken to an or¬phanage, and I was there until I got a little bit older. We were fed with a watery sub¬stance everyday, once a day so we could only survive, and then my sister took me, and we would take grain from anything that grew in the ground to survive.

My brother was not at the village at the time of my parents’ death, and had tried to communicate with us while we were in the orphanage, but they had not been allowing the letters to come through, and he arrived at that time.

He brought us some food substances, because he sold his fur coat to buy them. He left all this behind for my sister and myself, and he himself fled to Donbas. After a while, they tried to get me to join the collective, to work at the collective, but I had no strength left to do so. That’s when my brother took me to Donbas to live with him, and that’s where I lived until they took me to Germany. This is the short testimony. I have nothing further to say.

Senator DeCONCINI: Let me assure the witnesses, and again let me explain that if they want to submit further testimony, it’s only been due to the time constraints that we have not been able to solicit more. We’d be glad to have it in the record.