Speak of thr Happy Life is the powerful testimony of a victim of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1923-1933 that was organized by starvation in Ukraine.
The author, Anastasia Lysyvets, lost her parents, sister, and brother to the Holodomor.
She wrote the memoir in the msd-1970s, more than 40 years after the actual trauma took place.
her daughter, the Ukrainian poet, Natalka Bilotserkivets, has written the Foreword; Vitalii Ogienko, a researcher at the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, has written the Afterword.
The Institute funded the publication of this book.
