Due Recognition Sought for Reporter of 1930s Ukraine Famine

Few know about the great famine in the Ukraine, 1932–1933, which left an estimated 6 million–10 million people dead because of Joseph Stalin’s policies.

A woman cries in front of coffins Nov. 25, 2006, in the western Ukrainian city of Zhovkva. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—The great famine in the Ukraine in 1932–1933—called the Holodomor—is known by relatively few people. This was a man-made famine during Joseph Stalin’s rein where an estimated 6 million–10 million people, mostly Ukrainian peasants, were left to starve to death as the world was kept in the dark. 

Even less known than this atrocity, was the role that the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones played in revealing it.