A barefoot young man on crutches walks past a pile of stone rubble on a street in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Wienerberger, Alexander, 1891-1955, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Description
- The photographer shows a shabbily dressed young man, barefoot, propelling himself forward on crutches in one direction, while a woman dressed in office attire hurries by in the other direction. Both are seen against a backdrop of presumably construction-related stone rubble piled up high against tall wooden fencing.
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. Those who did not work were not issued food ration cards.
See also Records http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636296/data, http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636325/data, http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636329/data
- 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 Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce.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: 8.1cm
Image Height: 5.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD133
- 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/3639148/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.
