A man with an amputated foot stands watching a line of people waiting in one of Kharkiv’s marketplaces
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Book illustrations
- Photographs
- Description
- In the foreground, Wienerberger presents a young to middle-aged man leaning on a cane. His left leg is raised off the ground, showing an amputated and still bandaged foot. His bare left arm pokes through a torn jacket sleeve. He stands looking in the direction of a crowd of people standing in line near what appears to be one of Kharkiv’s marketplaces.
Many of the disabled were not employed. The unemployed were not issued food ration cards.
The caption to this photo reads, “and their victims,” referring back to a previous page with a photo of an over-crowded streetcar (See http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636263/data ). Whether this person did in fact acquire his injuries from a streetcar accident may be a matter for conjecture. Wienerberger did however emphasize the frequency of such accidents in his memoir, Hart auf hart. Not far from the man in the foreground, a youth appears to be staring intently at the photographer. Because photography of the destitute and of any kind of lines of people was strictly forbidden, the youth may have been signalling disapproval or a warning to Wienerberger. SEE: Restriction of Photography (in "The Holodomor's Forbidden Photographs," http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3653883/data - Notes
- Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Hart auf hart. 15 Jahre Ingenieur in Sowjetrussland. Ein Tatsachenbericht; mit 52 Original-Leicaaufnahmen des Verfassers. Salzburg, Leipzig: Pustet, 1939. f.p.17.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features below photo and Home page menus. - Inscriptions
- Caption: “Und ihre Opfer….” [And their victims]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD111
- 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. “Und ihre Opfer….” Hart auf hart. 15 Jahre Ingenieur in Sowjetrussland. Ein Tatsachenbericht. By Alexander Wienerberger. Salzburg, Leipzig: Pustet, 1939. f.p.17. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636244/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.
