File:GolodomorKharkiv.jpg

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English: Passers-by no longer pay attention to the corpses of starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. In Famine in the Soviet Ukraine, 1932-1933: a memorial exhibition, Widener Library, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard College Library: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1986. Procyk, Oksana. Heretz, Leonid. Mace, James E. (James Earnest). ISBN: 0674294262. Page 35. Initially published in Muss Russland Hungern? [Must Russia Starve?], published by Wilhelm Braumüller, Wien [Vienna] 1935. uk:Категорія:Зображення:Голодомор

Italiano: I passanti non prestano più attenzione ai cadaveri dei contadini denutriti nelle strade di Kharkiv, 1933. In Famine in the Soviet Ukraine 1932-1933: A memorial exhibition.

Українська: Жертви голоду. Харків, 1933 р. Фото з Колекції Кардинала Теодора Інніцира (Архів Віденської Дієцезії) Фото зробив інж. А. Вінербергер Фотодокументи надані проф. Василем Марочком (Інститут історії України НАН України). Центральний державний кінофотофоноархів України імені Г. С. Пшеничного. Oд. обл. 5121

Date

1933

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Author

Alexander Wienerberger
Description	Austrian engineer and photographer Wienerberger was recruited in the Army of the Austro-Hungarian empire during World War I. He was taken 1915 as prisoner and stayed in Russia after the war, where he spend 19 years until 1934. He build a chemical laboratry. He was chemical engineer specialising in explosives. In the 1920s he was political prisoner in Lubyanka Prison, Moscow. From 1930? he worked for chemical factories in the soviet union, establish some fatories and was technical director there. In 1931 a daughter was born. In 1933 he was technical director of a synthetic factory in Charkov and was witness of the man-made famine, called Holodomor. His photographs - made with an still existing Leica - are some of about only about 100 verified of this crisis. (Sometimes there are used pictures from 1921/1922 from Wolgau region.) Back in Austria in 1934 he give the Vienna Arcbishop Theodor Innitzer an album with 25 pictures and hand written commentars. In 1935 Ewald Ammende published in Vienna the Book Muss Russland Hungern? (Must Russia Starve?) with pictures from Wienerberger. In 1939 Wienerberger published Hart auf Hart (Hard Times) about his time as engenieer in the soviet union, wich was compatible with the Nazi-regime. He also published other photographs of Holodomor.
Date of birth/death	before 1898	5 January 1955
Location of birth/death	Austria	Salzburg, Austria
Work period	1933-1942
Work location	Ukraine, Austria
Authority control	WorldCat

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