A woman sits on the doorstep of an unidentified establishment in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Book illustrations
- Photographs
- Description
- Appearing exhausted, a woman sits on the doorstep to an establishment, her left hand resting on a covered basket. The caption states that this is an empty storefront. A padlock is visible on the door, but a seated woman, in profile, is clearly visible inside. Also visible is a large framed portrait of Stalin facing out the window.
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.2.
For further detail and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right.
- Inscriptions
- Caption: “Umsonst – die Türen sind verschlossen!” [In vain - the doors are locked!]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Stalin, Joseph
- Local identifier
- PD102
- 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. “Umsonst – die Türen sind verschlossen!” Muss Russland hungern? : Menschen- und Völkerschicksale in der Sowjetunion, by Ewald Ammende and Alexander Wienerberger. Wien: W. Braumüller Universitäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1935, Abb.2. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636271/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.
