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      Album of 25 photographs presented by the photographer to Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna, Austria in 1934.

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

      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 …

      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 …

      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 …

      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 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.

      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 …

      Members of the Bokan family gather near the gate to their home as Vladimir Bokan leaves for a separate residence. Vladimir was urged to leave and become self-sufficient by his father, Nikolai Bokan. Nikolai was struggling to feed his large family during the famine. Vladimir is pictured third from the …

      Nikolai Bokan and his son (likely Boris) are seen preparing buckets of water outside of their family home as a precautionary measure against threats from Bokan’s son Vladimir that he would set the house on fire. Vladimir was aggrieved that his father had forced him to leave the family home …

      The Bokan family marks one year of Boris Bokan’s imprisonment for opposing conscription into the Soviet Army. The Bokan family is seen seated at a table covered in a cloth, on which cups and saucers have been placed. Boris had embraced pacifist values, although unlike his father, his inspiration came …

      Boris Bokan (centre) is visited by his father, Nikolai Bokan (right), and brother Lev-Leonid (left) in prison, where he had spent over a year as punishment for opposing conscription into the Soviet Army. The trio are seen seated on the ground in a dirt enclosure surrounded by uncultivated plants. A …

      The photo features a window in the Bokan family house, broken by Vladimir Bokan. Vladimir was aggrieved that his father, Nikolai Bokan, had forced him to leave the family home to become self-sufficient. Nikolai was struggling to feed his family as a result of the famine. Vladimir was twenty-five years …

      The photo features Nikolai Bokan standing beside the broken gate to his property. The gate was vandalized by two collective farm workers who would not pay Bokan for his photography services and forcefully took their photos without payment. As they ripped the gate door off its hinges, it apparently hit …