Many people milling about on a broad city street or square in Kharkiv, with a man leaning on crutches and two women in the foreground
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- We see a large number of people standing or walking in what appears to be a city square. In the foreground are a young city dweller in a white dress, briskly walking by; a shabbily dressed man leaning on makeshift wooden crutches; an impoverished, distressed looking barefoot woman, probably from the countryside, holding something under her blouse; and a horse drawing a cart that is outside the picture frame. A streetcar track is visible in the immediate foreground.
This is one of a series of four photos portraying individuals with disabilities that Wienerberger put together in the Red Album with a single caption: “and their victims.” This caption refers back to a previous page with 2 photos of crowded streetcars. Whether the persons he photographed did in fact acquire their injuries from streetcar accidents may be a matter for conjecture. Wienerberger did however emphasize the frequency of such accidents in his memoir Hart auf hart.
Many of the disabled were not employed. The unemployed were not issued food ration cards.
See also Records: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636296/data, http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636325/data, and http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3639148/data
For further information on: The situation for Urban Residents and Industrial Workers, 1932-1933, 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 Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce.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.20b.
For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption in album: “und ihre Opfer.“ [and their victims.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 5.5
Image Height: 8.1
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD134
- 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." Das Arbeiterparadies. U.d.S.S.R. (also known as the Red Album). Private collection of Samara Pearce, n.d. p.20b. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636329/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.
