•5th March 1933 Arrives in Moscow, talks to
diplomats, etc.
•10th March fills
rucksack with food (from foreign currency store); sneaks out of Moscow by local train towards Ukraine.
•Crosses Ukraine border
by foot, walks along snowy railway for
2-days, stopping-off & sleeping in villages en route.
•Then ‘escorted’ by OGPU to German Consul in Kharkiv,
•Makes diary notes of
his off-limits trips’ observations of raging famine conditions & recording, the woeful
tales of peasants.
•These unique diaries
now represent probably the only ‘Independent
Western Verification of the Holodomor’.
•Extracts of these
diaries are interwoven into Sergiy Bukovsky’s
documentary ‘The Living’… But here is a brief excerpt:
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