6527 x 4351 px | 55,3 x 36,8 cm | 21,8 x 14,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
23 novembre 2022
Altre informazioni:
Non Exclusive: KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 23, 2022 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Ukraine Melinda Simmons attends 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.
