1933 Famine Photo's of Kharkov, Ukraine, from Dr. Ewald Ammende's {early winter} 1935 'Muss Russland Hungern?' [Must Russia Starve?],
published by Wilhelm Braumüller, Wien [Vienna].
Much controversy has been associated with validity of any photos
published in the West purporting to be genuinely from the time of the Holodomor.
Unfortunately, the approximately 70-year old source material has only been
available to a few academics. As part of our ongoing research, since it was
discovered that a couple of these dubious [1921] 'Soviet famine photos'
were amongst the private papers of Gareth Jones, which he had in his possession
before embarking upon his tragic final journey away form his home in October
1934. Therefore at the Gareth Jones Archives, we have decided to embark on
endeavouring to source and publish all readily available material to a wider
online readership.
However, at present this research is by far from incomplete as
we require sight of archival material from the Hearst Press and the London
Daily Express, amongst others. But for the moment. consider this website as work
inprogrss...
Nevertheless, the provenance of any 'famine' photo on this
website is neither claimed nor implied and are shown for comparative academic
research purposes.
However, Marco Carynnyk's in his paper entitled; 'Swallowing
Communism: Pro-Communist Ukrainian Canadians and Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s'
believes them to be authentic, where he wrote: "[Ammende's 'Muss Russland
Hungern?'] book contained twenty-one pictures, which were described as having
been taken by an Austrian technical specialist in Kharkiv in the summer of 1933.
They are for the most part shots of streets and show shops that did not exist in
1921. Unless evidence to the contrary is presented, these twenty-one pictures
are the only photographs of the famine that may be accepted as both genuine and
authentic. [There was an accompanying footnote to this paragraph (#48) which
read; "It now appears that the genuine and authentic photographs in Ammende's
book were taken by Alexander Wienerberger. See his Hart auf Hart: 25 Jahre
Ingenieur in Sowjetrussland which contains many of the photographs in Ammende's
book, and the collection of photographs from Cardinal Theodor Innitzer's
archives in Vienna in The 1933 Original Photographs from Karkiv, Ukraine."]
