Jerry Berman: |
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| Welcome This project explores the potential of visual arts to represent an archival collection of witness testimony in letters from the Holodomor. The letters of Jerry Berman, an engineer from South Africa who lived and worked in Luhansk, document his experiences in vivid detail across 13 months, 86 letters in total. This new material, now available to scholars and the general public in the archives of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide as a result of my PhD research, offers valuable insights into conditions in Ukraine at the time, and builds upon existing testimony from international workers in Ukraine. The letters, written between November 1932 and October 1933, describe in detail Berman’s experiences of food shortages, workers’ conditions and attitudes abroad to the Soviet experiment. An in-depth practical study using data visualization, this project is the first comprehensive analysis of the sources which I helped to uncover in 2021. My proposal is for a visual arts project exploring relationships between empirical reality and its artistic representation, focusing on the orientation visual tools can provide to biographical stories. The outcome will be a digital interactive project hosted on this website. |
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| Sara Nesteruk |