Existing comment:
Not even photos of the dead and dying smuggled to the West had much impact. Austrian chemical engineer Alexander Wienerberger, who was working in a Kharkiv factory, documented the famine with a Leica camera. He took about 100 shots and presented 25 especially shocking ones to Austrian Cardinal Theodor Innitzer in 1933. Nine of these are exhibited here. Although Wienberger's photos appeared in a pamphlet and several books, they were not widely reprinted at first, and it took years for the severity of the famine to sink in outside Ukraine. |