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On his way back home, the little boy crossed the gardens invaded by weeds and picked up old cherry pits. Back in the village, Andrijko befriends a neighboring family and moves in with them, leaving a note for his mother. Spring is in the air. A bum blebee is buzzing, and all kind of insects appear: butterflies, beetles, and aunts. Birds make their ap pearance also. Green stalks of wheat attract every one alive at the risk of being sent to Siberia. Petroun, the neighbor with whom Andrijko now lives, is summoned to cut the wheat. Harvesting is impossible because corpses cover the fields. The smell of death is everywhere; the fields are set on fire. Andrijko helps bring water to quench the thirst of the “harvesters.” He sees a mother who is taking care of her ailing child and he is overcome by such sadness that he decides to leave and look for his own mother. Before leaving, he goes to the secret place where the stove-maker has buried the precious chalice. No one has touched the ground under which it is hidden. In the morning sun, he imagines the chalice glowing above the earth, overcoming all and bringing hope. He survives, a child forced to grow too fast into a man. Death has claimed all else. Author's Postscript. The saga of the Katrannyk family comes to an end with the survival of one small boy. As history reveals it, it took several gen erations for millions of people to recover from the events recounted in Vasyl Barka's book. Today, Ukraine is independent. The task ahead is to etch the Great Famine into the memory of the nation as well as into the memory of the world. For many years, eyewitnesses remained silent. Those who spoke out were often not believed. Yet each person who sur vived these terrible times was a living testament and the truth has slowly and finally emerged, one painful story after another. It is said that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. History proves this maxim to be true. These stories cannot lie gathering dust. They must be remembered and told until they become firmly ingrained in human consciousness as a warning against tyrants and inhumanity and as a testament to the power of the human spirit to survive and endure, when even hope has vanished. Copyright Helene N. Turkewicz-Sanko, Ph.D. October 2005, John Carroll University. The U.S. Congress 1988 Commission on the Ukraine famine in its "Investigation of the Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933" concluded that: JOSEPH STALIN AND THOSE AROUND HIM COMMITTED GENOCIDE AGAINST UKRAINIANS IN 1932-1933. • At the height of the Famine, Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day or 1,000 per hour or 17 per minute. • Among the children, one in three perished as a consequence of collectivization and the famine. • According to dissident Soviet demographer M. Maksudov, "no fewer than three million children bom be tween 1932-1933 died of hunger." • 80% of Ukrainian intellectuals were liquidated because they refused to collaborate in the extermination of their countrymen. • Out of about 240 Ukrainian authors, 200 were liquidated or disappeared. Out of about 84 linguists, 62 perished. • The Ukrainian population may have been reduced by as much as 25%.
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