A seemingly endless line of people along a main street in Kharkiv waits to get their ration of bread
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- We see neither the end nor the beginning of this long line of people that winds through a little square beyond a shuttered kiosk, past a small city building and down the street. There is no sign visible on the building. Wienerberger states that the people are waiting to obtain black bread, the inferior quality of bread that was available at the time.
In his memoir, Hart auf hart. he also mentions that several shops opened in 1933 in Kharkiv where bread could be purchased at greatly inflated prices in rubles without a ration card. It is possible that this establishment is this kind of store, as explained below. The large waiting crowd is an indication that supply and delivery is not meeting the demand.
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: Wienerberger, Alexander. Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce. p.5a.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption on photo: “Schlange stehn um Schwarzbrot” [Waiting in line for black bread]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 23
Image Height: 17
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD120
- 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. “Schlange stehn um Schwarzbrot” Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Private collection of Samara Pearce, n.d. p.5a. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636301/data
- Location of Original
- Private collection of Samara Pearce. Please contact Ms. Pearce for reproductions from the original.
- 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: Private collection of Samara Pearce.
