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      “Proletarien aller Länder vereinigt euch!....(im Massengrab.)” [Proletarians of all countries unite! ... (in the mass grave)].

      "Die Fabrik am kalten Berge" [The factory on Cold Mountain (Холодна Гора)]

      Handwritten caption in album: “Ausgestorbenes Dorf.” [Deserted village.]

      The distinction of having the first photographs depicting scenes from Ukraine’s Holodomor published in the Western press may belong to Whiting Williams. Several of his photos from an August 1933 visit to Ukraine appeared early in 1934 as illustrations to his articles in a British weekly, Answers. A longtime resident ...

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

      Dnipro (Chicago, Philadelphia, Trenton, NJ; 1921-1926, 1928-1950) was a Ukrainian-language newspaper of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States. In the period 1931-40 it was published in Philadelphia as a biweekly. Its intended primary audience was the Ukrainian immigrant community in the US, and the range of topics covered ...

 Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Answers, August 1933, 3-4     “Why Russia is Hungry,” Answers. London, March 3, 1934, pp.3-4. The second of a two-part article series written by US business consultant, Whiting Williams, along with photos he took during his trip to Ukraine in August, 1933.

 Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Answers, 1934, 16-17, 28     Williams, Whiting. “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” Answers (weekly). London, February 24, 1934, pp.16-17,28. The first of a two-part article series written by US business consultant, Whiting Williams, along with photos he took during his trip to Ukraine in August, 1933.

      Caption: “Wolgagebiet, Eine auf der flucht begriffene, in einen Eisenbahnwaggon gestorbene Familie.” [in the Volga region, a family on the run is found dead in a railway car.]

      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 ...

      Caption: “Un coin de cimetière du pays dessèche. ‘Si les Gouvernements d'Europe avalent accorde les secours demandes en octobre 1921, tous les affamés auraient été sauvés.’ NANSEN.” [A corner of the parched country's cemetery. "If the European governments had taken up the rescue requests in October 1921, all the hungry ...

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      Williams' caption on back of photograph: “One of the weaker ones whose very life depends on, not the present crop but the present harvest.” Caption under photo in Answers: “A real ‘hunger-marcher’ - a woman, reduced by famine to skin and bones, ‘snapped’ in Soviet Ukraine.”

      Caption under photo in Answers: “Even those who are still at work in Russia, and who, therefore, are entitled to a ration of bread, have to wait – sometimes for hours – in long queues before they can get it.”

      Williams' caption on back of original photograph: “A ‘brigade’ of ‘voluntary’ office workers from the city endeavoring to make up for the lack of farm workers.” Caption under photo in Answers: “'Volunteer’ harvesters on one of the farms. Many of the peasants are dead or in exile, and large numbers ...

      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 ...

      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 ...

      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 ...