A farm woman, victim of starvation, lies behind a cart near a marketplace in Kharkiv

Description

Creator

Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Text

Item Types

Photographs

Photograph albums

Description

Hidden from public view, a woman lies huddled near a cart. Her feet are bound in rags. In the near distance, a very lean horse stands near another cart. In the far distance is a hazy view of a few people and a marketplace. Wienerberger’s caption in the Innitzer Album states that the woman has died of starvation. In his memoir, Hart auf Hart, written several years later, the photo is presented cropped, focusing entirely on the victim in her immediate surroundings. None of the background, including the horse, is visible, and the caption reads that the woman is dying.

For further information on: The fate of Ukraine's rural migrants in the cities, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right.

Notes

Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933; also known as the Innitzer Album, 1934. p.12.

This is one of 25 photographs depicting life and death in and around Kharkiv during the Holodomor that the photographer put together in a small album with a handwritten title: Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933 [The Tragedy of Famine in South Russia 1933.] He presented the album to the Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna in 1934 as an expression of appreciation for the Cardinal’s efforts in trying to organize an international campaign to assist the victims of starvation in 1933. The album is housed in the collections of the Diözesanarchiv, Vienna, Austria.

For related photo, essays, and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see menus at right.

Inscriptions

Handwritten caption in album: “Hungerleichen auf dem Markte—" [Bodies of starvation victims at the marketplace--]

Date of Original

spring-summer 1933

Image Dimensions

Image Width: 10.8cm
Image Height: 7.9cm

Subject(s)

Animals
Farmers
Homeless persons
Peasants
Poverty
Rural women
Starvation
Women
Famine (Ukraine : 1932-1933)
Holodomor
Famine victims

Local identifier

PD13

Collection

Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer album

Language of Item

German

Geographic Coverage

Kharkiv

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Latitude: 49.98081 Longitude: 36.25272

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Copyright Holder

Samara Pearce https://www.samarapearce.com/

Recommended Citation

Wienerberger, Alexander. 1933. “Hungerleichen auf dem Markte—" in: em>Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933. Vienna: Diözesanarchiv der Erzdiözese, [1934]. p.12. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636377/data

Location of Original