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  • Non-Holodomor: Two young boys at a medical facility in Russia, the older child feeding the younger
    Non-Holodomor: Two young boys at a medical facility in Russia, the older child feeding the younger
    ImageTextVideo       Photo Source: La famine en Russie.III. “Les deux etapes de la faim.” Union internationale de secours aux enfants, Geneva, 1922. (Third in a series of 9 postcards created by the UISE), with text in French, mailed out to raise funds and awareness during 1921-22. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fridtjof_Nansen,_Les_deux_%C3%A9tapes_de_la_faim_(1922).jpg For further evidence of the …
    ImageTextVideo     Photo Source: La famine en Russie.III. “Les deux etapes de la faim.” Union internationale de secours aux enfants, Geneva, 1922. (Third in a series of 9 postcards created by the …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Dead passengers, including an infant, lay on the floor of a railroad boxcar in Russia
    Non-Holodomor: Dead passengers, including an infant, lay on the floor of a railroad boxcar in Russia
    ImageText       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 …
    ImageText     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 …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Russian cemetery in the winter of 1921-1922, with a large pile of frozen, unburied corpses in the foreground
    Non-Holodomor: Russian cemetery in the winter of 1921-1922, with a large pile of frozen, unburied corpses in the foreground
    ImageText       Photo source: "La Famine en Russie" one of several postcards published to raise funds for famine relief. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victims_of_the_1921_famine_in_Russia.jpg#/media/File:Victims_of_the_1921_famine_in_Russia_-_Nansen.jpg For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please see Related Features at right.
    ImageText     Photo source: "La Famine en Russie" one of several postcards published to raise funds for famine relief. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victims_of_the_1921_famine_in_Russia.jpg#/media/File:Victims_of_the_1921_famine_in_Russia_-_Nansen.jpg For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please see …
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  • Non-Holodomor: An emaciated child lies wracked with pain in a medical facility set up by  international relief agencies working in Samara, Russia
    Non-Holodomor: An emaciated child lies wracked with pain in a medical facility set up by international relief agencies working in Samara, Russia
    ImageText       Photo source: Album of Starvation in Povolj'e. Samara, 1921-22. [1922]. Earlham College Archives, Richmond, Indiana. copy from digitized resource. Note: unnumbered pages and photos. Selected photo appears mid-album. https://digital.palni.edu/digital/collection/ecplow/id/22689 For original placement on full page: https://digital.palni.edu/digital/collection/ecplow/id/22684 For caption and transcript: https://digital.palni.edu/digital/collection/ecplow/id/22686 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this …
    ImageText     Photo source: Album of Starvation in Povolj'e. Samara, 1921-22. [1922]. Earlham College Archives, Richmond, Indiana. copy from digitized resource. Note: unnumbered pages and photos. Selected photo appears mid-album. https://digital.palni.edu/digital/collection/ecplow/id/22689 For …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Several children in Ukraine seated in a row, showing evidence of starvation
    Non-Holodomor: Several children in Ukraine seated in a row, showing evidence of starvation
    ImageText       This is #14 of 17 photographs depicting famine conditions in Ukraine that were mailed by the Ukrainian Red Cross with a separate numbered list in an official envelope date-stamped as arriving in Geneva on May 5, 1922. They are now housed among the documents of the "Union international de secours …
    ImageText     This is #14 of 17 photographs depicting famine conditions in Ukraine that were mailed by the Ukrainian Red Cross with a separate numbered list in an official envelope date-stamped as …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Young girl, unclothed to show her swollen abdomen and skeletal limbs, stands near the doorway to her house in Russia
    Non-Holodomor: Young girl, unclothed to show her swollen abdomen and skeletal limbs, stands near the doorway to her house in Russia
    ImageText       Photo source: Gorki, Maxim, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Fridtjof Nansen. 1922. Russland und die Welt. Berlin: Verl. für Politik und Wirtschaft, [unpag.photo section titled: Durch Not und Elend. Originalaufnahmen von Fridtjof Nansen aus dem russischen Hungergebiet.] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000014437950;view=1up;seq=42 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph and a biographical note …
    ImageText     Photo source: Gorki, Maxim, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Fridtjof Nansen. 1922. Russland und die Welt. Berlin: Verl. für Politik und Wirtschaft, [unpag.photo section titled: Durch Not und Elend. Originalaufnahmen von Fridtjof …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Large number of children posed in front of a small log building in Russia
    Non-Holodomor: Large number of children posed in front of a small log building in Russia
    ImageText       Source of postcard: Friends Emergency War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) archive. ©Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph and a biographical note on the photographer, Isaiah Liberman, please see Related Features at right.
    ImageText     Source of postcard: Friends Emergency War Victims Relief Committee (FEWVRC) archive. ©Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain. For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph and a …
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  • Non-Holodomor: A cart is on its way to the cemetery loaded with corpses that were collected along the streets of Kherson, Ukraine, and stripped of their clothing
    Non-Holodomor: A cart is on its way to the cemetery loaded with corpses that were collected along the streets of Kherson, Ukraine, and stripped of their clothing
    ImageText       Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 96. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656;view=1up;seq=102 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please see Related Features at right.
    ImageText     Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 96. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656;view=1up;seq=102 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Five young boys in Russia show evidence of swelling and starvation, with one boy pointing out the bloated stomach of the boy next to him
    Non-Holodomor: Five young boys in Russia show evidence of swelling and starvation, with one boy pointing out the bloated stomach of the boy next to him
    ImageText       Source of lantern slide shown: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Digital collection resource: http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/SC_Relief/id/2131/rec/317 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph and a biographical note on the photographer, Isaiah Liberman, please see Related Features at right.
    ImageText     Source of lantern slide shown: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. Digital collection resource: http://triptych.brynmawr.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/SC_Relief/id/2131/rec/317 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph and a biographical …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Five boys in Ukraine, stripped down and seated in a row, showing evidence of starvation and swelling
    Non-Holodomor: Five boys in Ukraine, stripped down and seated in a row, showing evidence of starvation and swelling
    ImageText       Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 143. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656&view;=1up&seq;=149 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please see Related Features at right. This photo appears as #13 of 17 photographs that were mailed by the Ukrainian Red …
    ImageText     Photo source: Herasymovych, Ivan. 1922. Holod na Ukraïni. Biblioteka Ukraïnʹkoho Slova, Ch. 31. Berlin: Ukr. slovo, p. 143. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000004088656&view;=1up&seq;=149 For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this photograph, please …
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  • Non-Holodomor: Corpses of children who died of starvation in the streets of Kherson, Ukraine, lie in a heap at a mortuary
    Non-Holodomor: Corpses of children who died of starvation in the streets of Kherson, Ukraine, lie in a heap at a mortuary
    ImageText       Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. April 30, 1922. Genève: Imp. de H. Vollet . p.20. http://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/16481/file.pdf For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this …
    ImageText     Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. …
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  • Non-Holodomor: A youth crazed with hunger sits in a basin in a Ukrainian village
    Non-Holodomor: A youth crazed with hunger sits in a basin in a Ukrainian village
    ImageText       Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. April 30, 1922. Genève: Imp. de H. Vollet . p.17. http://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/16481/file.pdf For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this …
    ImageText     Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. …
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  • Non-Holodomor: A youth with gangrene is attended by two hospital workers in a medical facility in Ukraine
    Non-Holodomor: A youth with gangrene is attended by two hospital workers in a medical facility in Ukraine
    ImageText       Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. April 30, 1922. Genève: Imp. de H. Vollet . p.16. http://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/16481/file.pdf For further evidence of the 1920s origins of this …
    ImageText     Photo source: Information report series published by the Comité International de Secours a la Russie, Haut Commissariat du Dr. Nansen: no. 22: "La Famine en Ukraine, rapport," by Vidkun Quisling. …
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  • Non-Holodomor: An emaciated child stands for the photographer by her hospital bed in Kherson, Ukraine
    Non-Holodomor: An emaciated child stands for the photographer by her hospital bed in Kherson, Ukraine
    ImageText       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.
    ImageText     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 …
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  • Nikolai Bokan Collection
    Nikolai Bokan Collection
    GroupImage       A Note on the Collection Nikolai Fedorovich Bokan (1881–1942) was a photographer from Baturyn, Chernihiv oblast, in Soviet Ukraine. Among Nikolai’s surviving photos are those that document his family’s experience of the Holodomor, and notably the death of one of his sons from starvation. The photos included in this collection …
    GroupImage     A Note on the Collection Nikolai Fedorovich Bokan (1881–1942) was a photographer from Baturyn, Chernihiv oblast, in Soviet Ukraine. Among Nikolai’s surviving photos are those that document his family’s experience …
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  • Whiting Williams Collection
    Whiting Williams Collection
    Group       A Note on the Collection Whiting Williams, a well-respected, widely published American authority on labor-management relations, visited Ukraine in his professional capacity in August, 1933 – a follow-up to his visit to Ukraine’s Donetsk mining region in 1928. Upon arrival in 1933, he was so stunned by the disastrous conditions …
    Group     A Note on the Collection Whiting Williams, a well-respected, widely published American authority on labor-management relations, visited Ukraine in his professional capacity in August, 1933 – a follow-up to his …
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  • Select 1920s Famine Photos from Ukraine and Russia
    Select 1920s Famine Photos from Ukraine and Russia
    Group       A Note on the Collection The disastrous 1920s famine in parts of Russia and Ukraine was well documented in word and image because the young Bolshevik regime ultimately allowed outside relief workers to provide assistance. Carefully posed shots revealing the shocking effects of starvation on individuals in village and hospital …
    Group     A Note on the Collection The disastrous 1920s famine in parts of Russia and Ukraine was well documented in word and image because the young Bolshevik regime ultimately allowed outside …
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  • Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer Album
    Alexander Wienerberger: Innitzer Album
    Group       The dimensions of the album are: Width: 24 cm X Height: 13.8 cm
    Group     The dimensions of the album are: Width: 24 cm X Height: 13.8 cm
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  • Alexander Wienerberger: Beyond the Innitzer album
    Alexander Wienerberger: Beyond the Innitzer album
    Group       A Note on the Collection Alexander Wienerberger’s photos from his time in Kharkiv (1933) were used to illustrate several pamphlets, newspaper articles, and books in the period 1934-1939. To date, we have identified nine such publications, which are listed at the end of this Note. We have also confirmed the …
    Group     A Note on the Collection Alexander Wienerberger’s photos from his time in Kharkiv (1933) were used to illustrate several pamphlets, newspaper articles, and books in the period 1934-1939. To date, …
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  • James Abbe Collection
    James Abbe Collection
    Group       Photo source: The James Abbe Archive. No. 1147. For further information about this photo, go to: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636396/data
    Group     Photo source: The James Abbe Archive. No. 1147. For further information about this photo, go to: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3636396/data
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