Crowd of people waiting to enter a store selling rationed food in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Book illustrations
- Photographs
- Description
- A large number of people are crowded in front of a building bearing a large sign “Хаторг 16", over the entrance. The doors appear to be open, and a few men are either exiting the building or speaking to the crowd. No goods are visible in the display windows, though one has a large portrait of a Party official on view.
A “Хаторг“ or Khatorh (abbreviation of: Kharkiv trade organization) was one of several types of food access centers created or repurposed in the early 1930’s to manage the sharply diminishing food supply for the greatly expanded urban and industrial population. This establishment is most likely selling goods for residents with ration cards; however, it is possible that it had been repurposed in 1933 to sell bread for rubles (Wienerberger, Osokina)
For further information on: Availability and access to food in urban and industrial areas, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right.
- Notes
- Photo source: Ammende, Ewald, and Alexander Wienerberger. Muss Russland hungern? Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion. Wien: W. Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935, Abb. 1.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right. - Inscriptions
- Caption: “Die leeren Lebensmittel-Verteilungsstellen – hier der “Chartorg” ( Charkower Handelskooperation) – werden von der notleidenden Bevölkerung belagert.” [The empty food distribution centers - in this case, Khatorh (Kharkiv trade cooperative) - are besieged by the needy population.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD101
- Collection
- Alexander Wienerberger: Beyond the 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
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Samara Pearce https://www.samarapearce.com/
- Recommended Citation
- Wienerberger, Alexander. 1933. “Die leeren Lebensmittel-Verteilungsstellen – hier der “Chartorg” ( Charkower Handelskooperation) – werden von der notleidenden Bevölkerung belagert.” Muss Russland hungern? Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion. By Ewald Ammende and Alexander Wienerberger. Wien: W. Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935, Abb.1. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636268/data
- Location of Original
- Location of original photograph reproduced in this publication is unknown.
- 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. Source: Book cited in NOTES above.
