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      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 consumed any bread. The table is covered with a decorative cloth, and the family is eating from an assortment of bowls apparently …

      Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland; also known as the Innitzer Album, 1934. p.22. 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 …

      Nikolai Bokan and three of his sons – Boris, Lev-Leonid, and Aleksandr – commemorate the death of their son and brother, Konstantin, who died of starvation. The group is seen solemnly seated at a table. Featured at the centre of the table is a display board that documents Konstantin’s death. …

      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 from 1865 to 1936. Inscriptions are written on many of the photos, and additional descriptive text is displayed on the right-hand side of …

      This photo, taken August, 1933, was used to illustrate “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” (February 24, 1934, p.16), the first of two articles by Whiting Williams that ran in a London weekly titled Answers. The original photograph and the published version are both shown here. See Related Features menu to …

      Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933; also known as the Innitzer Album, 1934. p.10. 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 …

      Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Die Hungertragödie in Südrussland 1933; also known as the Innitzer Album, 1934. p.12. 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 …

      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 Unpublished and undated album in the private collection of Samara Pearce.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.12a. For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at left.

      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.2b. For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right.

      Captioned as: "'Blue Beard': James Abbe en route in Russia; Moscow 1927." in Shooting Stalin : The 'Wonderful' Years of Photographer James Abbe (1883-1973); [Zur Ausstellung "Shooting Stalin - Die 'Wunderbaren' Jahre Des Fotografen James Abbe" Im Museum Ludwig, Köln, 2. Oktober 2004-9. Januar 2005] = Die "Wunderbaren" Jahre Des …

      Photo source: Wienerberger, Alexander. Hart auf hart. 15 Jahre Ingenieur in Sowjetrussland. Ein Tatsachenbericht; mit 52 Original-Leicaaufnahmen des Verfassers. Salzburg, Leipzig: Pustet, 1939. f.p.161. For further details and a listing of originals and versions published through 1939 with their captions, see Related Features at right.

 Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Answers, 1934, 16-17, 28     The original photographs that served as the basis for the published illustrations are accessible from the Related Features menu. Descriptions of the photographs along with their original captions are included.

      Source: James Abbe Archive, No. 1147. A version with "Forbidden" stamped across the photograph was published in: Abbe, James. I Photograph Russia. New York: R. M. McBride, 1934, f.p.53. See: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3684747/data

      Researchers in the 1980s have claimed that this photograph was originally in the possession of the Diözesanarchiv der Erzdiözese, Vienna. However, it is no longer in that archive. A photocopy of the original exists in the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre archives, Toronto, Canada. There is no inscription or …

      Photo source: Bildarchiv [File 68/62/7A]: Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany. A small print of this photograph is part of a collection of Russian famine photos from the Volga region which was in the possession of Dr. O. Fischer. Each photo bears his signature, includes a caption, and is dated March 1922 on …

      The individuals seated on the front bench were sentenced to death for seeking vengeance against the authorities for the seizure of their property. They are surrounded by Soviet authorities in uniform. A group of people in civilian clothing are seen in the back rows. The photo appears to have been …

      The death certificate indicates that Konstantin Bokan died on July 1, 1933 at the age of twenty-one. He is said to have died from exhaustion due to malnutrition (istoshchenie). The doctor's office is listed as the place of death. The certificate was prepared by Dr. Klym Teslia, a local doctor, …

      The photo display board is dedicated to the death of Konstantin Bokan by starvation. Though the text is largely indecipherable, the photos are known to feature Konstantin’s place of death, corpse, funeral proceedings, and grave. For more information on the photos, view the “Related Features” section of this record. Only …

      Photo taken August, 1933. No record of publication found to date.

      The original photograph is held by: Херсонський обласний краєзнавчий музей (Kherson Regional Museum), Kherson, Ukraine. Please also see Related Features at right for further information and a biographical note on the photographer, Gabriel Rappeport.