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Ye Xinji (b. 1927) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye recollects that during the collectivization, people farmed together and many just pretended to work, so they ran out of food. Ye and the interviewer Ye Zuyi's father often went fishing at night. He also went to Qingzhou with some other people to sell vats in return for sweet potatoes.

Ye Yaolang (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye learned tailoring with his father after elementary school and then taught himself painting bed boards. He went to places to paint boards to escape the Great Famine. Ye recollects that, during the Great Leap Forward, the production team planted crops on two sides of the road just to impress their leaders, and used soil to fake fertilizers. The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.

Ye Yinying (b.1933) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye recollects that many people would hope someone would die and have a funeral, so that they could go and help to have some food in return. When Gaolang's father passed away, Ye's husband went to offer a hand, but Gaolang's mother hid all the food to save it for her children. When people helped carrying the coffin and did not get food, they would complain.

Ye Yueming (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye explains how they calculated their work points and how they survived the hunger afterwards. Ye's brother-in-law was an officer in Guangxi, and brought him thirty jin of rice. Since they were not allowed to cook, they cooked the rice at night and ate cold rice balls the next day. His brother-in-law also got two little pigs back. Ye fed the pigs with human breast milk so that they could grow into adult pigs. Later he sold the pigs to build his house. In 1959, with some other villagers, he escaped to find work in Jiangxi. They begged for food and worked different jobs on their way. They got imprisoned for this after they were back. Ye listed details of 5 villagers who died of starvation.

Author: W.J. Gruffydd; Publisher: University of Wales Press; Place of Publication: Cardiff; Hardcover; Language: Welsh; Significance to W.D. Davies: Inscription

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Jerusalem: בטאון התנועה לכינון המקדש

Jerusalem: בית ה נלך

New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, Inc.

New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, Inc.

New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, Inc.

New York: Yiddisher Kultur Farband, Inc.

Transliteration: Nevuʼah

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

New York: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Pakistan - Swiss Potato Development Project.

Yi Guixiang (b. 1945) is a resident of Pengtian Village, Jiangxi Province. In this interview, Yi talks about the difficult time during the Great Famine when she was working at a mold factory. Since 1958, if the villagers did not work at the production team, they would not obtain any food. Since everyone was only assigned with two liangs of rice, the rice had to be cooked with bran, potato scrapes and others. Moreover, there was always a scramble at the canteen for the scarce supply of food. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

Vol 2, no. 1-2.

Proposal, correspondence, and internal records relating to marketing of AIDS and the National Body

Yin Mieying (b. 1932) is a resident of Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. She was born in a nearby town called Huotian, and married to a man in Changxing Village during the Land Reform. In this interview, Yin recalls that she was forced to work during the Great Leap Forward, which left her no time to attend her child, and that she ate tree root, tree leaves, and wild herbs to survive. She also mentions an old fellow villager, who died of constipation because of eating chaff.

南海瀛台

Yin Zhong'e (b. 1925-2011) is a resident of Changxing Village, Gaolong Town, Chaling County, Hunan Province. She gave birth to nine children, and only six of them survived. In this interview, Yin recalls how starving she was because of limited food supplies in 1960, and how she was forced to work in the production team less than 20 days after her child's birth. The filmmaker's description of this interview has been translated into English.

Yin Huizhang (b. 1939) is a resident of Xiaoyin Village, Shangdian Town, Binzhou City, Shandong Province. In this interview, Yin remembers life during the Great Famine. He used to be the barn keeper of the Production Team, yet he didn't see grains for six months between 1959 and 1960. Later, people could get half jin (250 grams) of food each day after working. In the worst year, more than 800 people, about half of the population in Shawo Village and Guanzhuang Village either starved to death or left (migrated to the Northeast, re-married, etc.). The filmmaker's description of this interview has been translated into English.

Yin Lianrong (b. 1941) is a resident of Shaziying Village, Yang Town, Shunyi District, Beijing. In this interview, Yin recalls the life during and after the Great Famine. Once a pig of the Production Team in Gaogezhuang Village died, so the man who fed the livestock cooked the pig. His son ate most of the pig and was eventually stuffed to death. Because of the edible things her dad found near the reed field, Yin's family did not starve badly. When one of her kids was born, due to malnutrition, Yin did not have milk. She had to buy a goat for 5 Yuan and fed the baby with goat milk. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

Yin Tingxiang (b. 1942) is a resident of Huanzidong Village, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. In this interview, Yin recalls the life during the Great Famine. Many people were starving to death and the dead bodies were stacked up on the streets. Yin was still at school during that time. However, because of the famine, they did not have any class but all went out to dig wild herbs and tree barks for extra sustenance. Many people fled to Jilin and Heilongjiang Province because there were more foods there.

Yin Tingzhi (b. 1929) is a resident of Huanzidong Village, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. In this interview, Yin talks about her experience of fleeing to the Great Northern Wilderness where foods were relatively sufficient during the Great Famine. In order to make money for the trip, Yin's family sold the wooden parts of their house to the Sanjiazi Coal Mine, but they had to keep the land because everyone was starving and no one wanted it. In the Great Northern Wilderness, Yin's husband worked for the local production team. The family of six had to sleep on a small bed extended by a piece of plank. After six months, because it was too cold there and her daughter was old enough to get married, Yin's family moved back to Huanzidong Village. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.

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Jerusalem: משרד החינוך והתרבות

Jerusalem: משרד החינוך והתרבות

Jerusalem: משרד החינוך והתרבות

Tel Aviv: איחוד עולמי