LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A struggle for existence 1
Surrender
FACING PAGE
Foodshop in Kharkov besieged by the population 32
Queue at a milk-distribution centre in Kharkov 32
Starving, homeless children, the bezprizomie 33
Bezprizomie . 33
A mother and child wandering in search of food 64
Famine is of all scourges the cruellest to children 64
Another child victim of the famine 65
Brothers in distress 65
Corpses of famine victims who died in the streets awaken at
first the sympathy of passers-by 96
This famine victim also still attracts attention and pity 96
Familiarity breeds indifference 97
Even several famine victims dead in the street cause no
emotion in passers-by 97
Carrying on everyday conversation regardless of the corpse
by the roadside 128
A child dead from starvation to whom passers-by pay no
attention 128
Body of famine victim lying on the roadside 129
Another famine victim lying in a field 129
Body of famine victim lying by freshly dug grave ready for
burial r6o
Famine victims in hospital 161
Body of famine victim in a field, stripped of clothing
by passers-by 161
Collecting corpses for burial 192
These families boarded a train and went to Kharkov to
demand food, which they did not, however, receive.
When the train was opened they were found to have
died from hunger on the return journey 192
The last journey 193
Mass graves of famine victims, in such numbers that they
resemble dunes 224
A great multitude which no man could number 224