Small group of people gathers around a famine victim lying dead on a sidewalk in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- A young farmer, according to the photographer, lies dead on the sidewalk of a residential neighborhood. Several people are standing near the victim, among them five children of various ages (three of the youngest are barely visible), who exhibit a range of reactions. Four adults stand closest to the victim, two regarding him with apparent concern, while another appears to be talking about it with a man and a woman standing further away in the background, barely visible. Most of those gathered appear to be city residents. The fact that this sight has elicited considerable interest, may mean that the sight of dead or dying people is still uncommon, at least in this Kharkiv neighborhood.
For a close-up photo of the victim, see Record PD1: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636350/data
For further information on: Starving rural migrants and urban residents in Ukraine, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right. - Notes
- Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933; also known as the Innitzer Album, 1934. p.11.
This is one of 25 photographs depicting life and death in and around Kharkiv during the Holodomor that the photographer put together in a small album with a handwritten title: Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933 [The Tragedy of Famine in South Russia 1933.] He presented the album to the Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna in 1934 as an expression of appreciation for the Cardinal’s efforts in trying to organize an international campaign to assist the victims of starvation in 1933. The album is housed in the collections of the Diözesanarchiv, Vienna, Austria.
For essays and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see menus at right.
- Inscriptions
- Handwritten caption in album: “Eines der ersten Opfer.” [One of the first victims.]
- Date of Original
- spring-summer 1933
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 10.8cm
Image Height: 7.9cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD12
- Collection
- Alexander Wienerberger: 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
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Samara Pearce https://www.samarapearce.com/
- Recommended Citation
- Wienerberger, Alexander. 1933. “Eines der ersten Opfer,” in: Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933. Vienna: Diözesanarchiv der Erzdiözese, [1934]. p.11. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636376/data
- Location of Original
- Diözesanarchiv - Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria. Please contact this archive for official reproductions.
- 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 and the Diözesanarchiv - Bibliothek, Vienna, Austria.
