Survivor Recounts Horrors of Ukraine's Holodomor Famine

Hanna Domanska, now 96, shares her experiences from the famine that killed millions during Soviet rule.

• Hanna Domanska, a 96-year-old survivor of the Holodomor, recounts her experiences during the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933.
• Domanska's family was targeted by Soviet authorities who seized their property and exiled half of them to Siberia.
• Domanska survived by eating thin soups of flour and water, and later, porridge made from weeds.
• The Holodomor was not openly discussed in Ukraine until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
• Domanska, who also survived World War II, is currently living through Russia's war on Ukraine.

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