In 1932–1933, this building served as a so-called “shelter” — a children’s home where children from all over the Myrhorod district were brought. At first, only orphaned children of so-called “kulaks” and repressed families were sent here.
However, when the Holodomor reached catastrophic proportions in 1933, impoverished parents of large families began to give their children to this “shelter” in the hope that they might survive there. They hoped that the authorities would at least provide food for the children in the orphanage. But things turned out differently… Over time, the orphanage turned into a true death camp, where behind barbed wire children were dying en masse from starvation, no longer counted and buried in a mass grave in the yard.
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