Ukraine's Holodomor Through An Austrian's Eyes

The jaded population has lost all interest in the gruesome sight of the famished and the dying.

Everyday conversation in sight of a corpse

Queues in front of a milk distribution center

At the food market in Kharkiv -- each bottle of milk, desperately clasped, represents a valuable possession in free trade

The corpses of the starved in the streets of Kharkiv arouse sympathy at first.

Hungry and neglected children -- the so-called "Besprisornyje" ("the waifs")

Hunger forces farmers to migrate

Besprisornyje sitting on a stone-heap, delousing themselves

A starving child whom nobody cares about

The empty "Chartorg" (Charower Trade Cooperative) food distribution site is besieged by a devastated population in Kharkiv..

The sympathy recedes!

The corpses of the starving lie on the roadside. Passersby no longer pay them any attention.

This corpse still excites attention

In the blooming countryside, a sign reads: "The burial of corpses is strictly forbidden here!" 

The corpses of those who died of starvation are buried in mass graves.