Her legs were shining, and the skin had burst.”11 Hlafyra Ivanova from Proskuriv province remembered that people turned yellow and black: “the skin of swollen people grew chapped, and liquid oozed out of their wounds.”12 People with swollen legs, covered in sores, could not sit: “When such a person sat down, the skin broke, liquid began to run down their legs, the smell was awful and they felt unbearable pain.”
