The Bokan family share a meager meal marking three hundred days without the consumption of bread.
The photo depicts members of the Bokan family sharing a meager meal during the famine. The family posed for the photo to mark 300 days since they had ...
Nikolai Bokan and three of his sons commemorate the death of Konstantin Bokan, who died of starvation.
Nikolai Bokan and three of his sons – Boris, Lev-Leonid, and Aleksandr – commemorate the death of their son and brother, Konstantin, who died of ...
Photo Display Board: "Our Past and Present in Photos"
A photo display board created by Nikolai Bokan in 1936. The board offers a timeline of events in the life of Nikolai Bokan and his family, ranging ...
Emaciated woman in heavy coat and work boots stands near a factory in Ukraine
In the original photo, we see a tall thin woman standing, as if waiting, near a modern, new factory building. She is wearing a heavy coat, although ...
An empty, broken-down farmhouse in Ukraine
An empty farmhouse stands by the road, its roof disintegrating.
In his memoir, Wienerberger recalls visiting a Ukrainian village in the spring. ...
Mother sitting on a sidewalk in Kharkiv, feeds her starving children
A destitute mother sits against the side of a large institutional building in the city, her children beside her. She holds a metal can with perhaps ...
A male factory worker in his temporary shelter on the outskirts of Kharkiv
In what appears to be an open, uncultivated field, a man sits in his temporary dwelling. The tiny shelter is slightly raised off the ground and made ...
A group of homeless children on a rock pile in Kharkiv
Several children sit on a pile of rocks. The rock pile looks like construction debris against a tall wooden fence, and in the foreground a set of ...
A farm woman, victim of starvation, lies behind a cart near a marketplace in Kharkiv
Hidden from public view, a woman lies huddled near a cart. Her feet are bound in rags. In the near distance, a very lean horse stands near another ...
Mass grave burial site near Kharkiv with many new burial mounds
We see a new mass burial site on the edge of the city, similar to that portrayed in PD22 ...
My Journey through Famine-Stricken Russia!
Williams, Whiting. “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” Answers (weekly). London, February 24, 1934, pp.16-17,28.
The first of a two-part ...
Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer Album
Alexander Wienerberger: Beyond the Innitzer album
James Abbe Collection
Nikolai Bokan Collection
Whiting Williams Collection
Select 1920s Famine Photos from Ukraine and Russia
