The museum received antique items from the village of Pereselennia in the Kyiv region

Today, the Arzhevitin family visited the Holodomor Museum and donated several items from their private collection to the museum’s collection. Family head Stanislav Arzhevitin, Chairman of the Council of the Association of Ukrainian Banks and Professor in the Department of Banking at the V. Hetman Kyiv National Economic University, who is a long-standing enthusiast of local history and the founder of ten local history museums, told us:

“Our family was established in July 1975, and we have celebrated our family day every year since then. It has become a lovely tradition to donate exhibits to museums on this occasion. I encourage my grandchildren to join in so that they, too, will support our initiative in the future.”

The items donated include a hand-operated mill for grinding wheat into flour or groats, a pair of double jugs used to carry hot lunches to reapers in the fields, and a flail for threshing grain. The items originate from the village of Pereselennia in the Kaharlyk District of the Kyiv Region, where our donor was born. It was here, during the famine of 1933, that his mother was born.

“The family survived thanks to Grandma Stepanyda, who had thoughtfully hidden supplies in several places around the farmstead. Despite the hard times, she also shared with her neighbours and saved them from starvation. However, in the family of my father, who was born in the Kharkiv region, two children died of starvation.”

We are extremely grateful to the Arzhevitin family for contributing to our collection.

Dear friends, if you have any items from the Holodomor period (photographs, documents, clothing, towels, household items) and are willing to donate them to the museum, please write to us at [email protected]. These artefacts must be preserved!