Mass grave burial site on the outskirts of Kharkiv with a gravedigger at work
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- An open field on the edge of the city has been transformed into a site for anonymous mass graves. Large numbers of unidentified victims of the raging famine were picked up each day in Kharkiv. A gravedigger pauses to look at the photographer. Houses and other buildings can be seen in the background. A similar scene is shown in PD23 (http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636393/data )
For further information on: Death and burial of famine victims in the city, 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.21.
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 essays and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see menus at right.
- Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption in album: “Massengräber für die Verhungerten.” [Mass graves for the victims of starvation.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10.8cm
Image Height: 7.9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD22
- Collection
- Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer album
- Language of Item
- German
- Geographic Coverage
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 49.98081 Longitude: 36.25272
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- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Samara Pearce https://www.samarapearce.com/
- Recommended Citation
- Wienerberger, Alexander. 1933. “Massengräber für die Verhungerten,” in: Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933. Vienna: Diözesanarchiv der Erzdiözese, [1934]. p.21. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636403/data
- Location of Original
- Diözesanarchiv - Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria. Please contact this archive for official reproductions.
- Terms of Use
- Rightsholder requests that the name of the photographer, Alexander Wienerberger, accompany each authentic reproduction of his work.
- Reproduction Notes
- Reproduced with the permission of rightsholder Samara Pearce and the Diözesanarchiv - Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria.
