The population of Vepryk village, Bobrovytsia district, Chernihiv region, suffered from the Holodomor genocide of 1932-1933. Oleksandra Khomivna Panasiuk, a local resident who witnessed the Holodomor, spoke about the mortality of children in the orphanage and the place of mass burial of children in the cemetery. Another local resident, Liubov Savivna Hutselyuk, born in 1927, also mentioned the place of mass burial of people in the cemetery.
