Alexander Wienerberger

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Alexander Wienerberger was an Austrian chemical engineer, who worked for 19 years in the chemical industry of the Soviet Union. While he worked in Kharkiv, he created a series of photographs of the massive man-made genocidal famine, the Holodomor (Голодомор) of 1932–1933, which serves as photographic evidence of the mass starvation and deaths of the Ukrainian people committed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet communist authorities at that time, in their attempt to destroy Ukraine and its people. The famine was the worst and most deadly in the central, southern, and eastern parts of Ukraine.

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