This article examines the collection of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine to better understand what documents related to the study of the Holodomor exist in this unique archive. The U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine formed in the 1980s to investigate the 1932–33 famine in Soviet Ukraine (now referred to as the Holodomor), and in doing so the Commission collected important sources, documents, and testimony related to the famine. Most notably, the Commission collected over two hundred eyewitness accounts from famine survivors. The first part of this article examines the types of materials available in the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine collection as a way to highlight the types of sources that can be used to write about the famine. The second part of the article presents new research on the aftermath of the famine based on documents and testimony from the Commission’s archive, and it demonstrates the type of research that can be done with this important but relatively underused source base.
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