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Leica That Saw Holodomor exhibition in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 23, 2022 - Alexander Wienerberger's great-granddaughter Samara Pearce (L), who keeps the album with the photos of the Holodomor and the camera his great-grandfather used to take photos of the victims of the genocide in Kharkiv in 1933, 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 Wienerbergers memoirs about life in the USSR are also on display.NO USE RUSSIA. NO USE BELARUS.

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