“The Face of Death”: Holodomor in Sumy Region

Village of Byshkin, Sumy Region.

The program "The Face of Death" of Sumy Television on November 22, 2008 is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor — a crime of the Soviet regime.

On the video: fragments of Soviet black-and-white chronicles; cover of the book "Holodomor in Sumy Region. In the Memories of Eyewitnesses", research expedition; village of Byshkin, various plans, residents; village cemetery; monument to Lenin in Hlukhiv; opening of the Monument to the Victims of the Holodomor in the city of Hlukhiv; Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, various angles; moscow, kremlin, mausoleum; protesters with flags of the communist party on Independence Square in Sumy, archive; Kyiv, monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky; Dniprovska HPP.

Comments: testimonies of residents of the village of Byshkin, eyewitnesses of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 Maria Kurylo, Vira Isayeva, Pelageya Tokar, Vasyl Leshchenko, Dmytro Olkhovyk, Polina Kleymyonova, Ivan Korzh; Director of the State Archives of Sumy Region Gennady Ivanushchenko; Head of the Kyiv organization of the Memorial Society Roman Krutsyk; Head of the project "Holodomor in Sumy Region in the Memory of the People" Serhiy Pyatachenko; Sculptor Gennady Matyukhin; Head of the State Committee of Archives of Ukraine Oleksandr Udod.

Author — Kostyantyn Yelishevich.