Non Exclusive: KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 23, 2022 - Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, acting director-general
Non Exclusive: KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 23, 2022 - Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, acting director-general of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide and Alexander Wienerberger's great-granddaughter Samara Pearce (L to R) attend the opening of The Leica That Saw the Holodomor exhibition at the Hall of Memory of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. The main exhibit is the camera with which Austrian engineer Alexander Wienerberger captured the man-made famine, known as the Holodomor, in Kharkiv Region in 1933. A photo album compiled by the author himself, a specific device with which Wienerberger managed to secretly take photos and the brochures - Russland wie es wirklich ist (“Russia as it really is”, 1934) and Um eine Fuhre Salz im GPU-Keller (“Cargo of salt in the basement of the GPU”, 1942) - accompanied by Alexander Wienerberger’s memoirs about life in the USSR are also on display.
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Keywords: alexander, camera, culture, exhibition, famine, genocide, history, holodomor, leica, minister, museum, oleksandr, pearce, photography, samara, tkachenko, ukrainian, wienerberger
