ND: We lived near Halychyna [at that time, Poland]. People crossed the river Zbruch [Soviet-Polish border] clandestinely to get sugar beet pulp. People were shot at when trying to return. My sister was wounded there, after trading a handkerchief for sugar beet pulp. You could mix it with orach, and it was edible.

Natalia Demyanenko (nee Malynovska)

Date of birth: 24 September 1923

Place of birth: Armarky village, Vinnytsia oblast

Witnessed Famine in: Armarky village, Vinnytsia oblast

Arrived in Canada: 1948

Current residence: Ottawa, Ontario

Date and place of interview: 22 October 2008, Ottawa

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