Rhea Clyman

Rhea Clyman (1904 – 1981) was a Canadian journalist[1] who travelled the USSR and reported about the Holodomor. She was famously expelled from the USSR in 1932.[2]

Biography

Clyman was born in 1904 in Toronto.[3] In 1928, at the age of 24, she travelled to the USSR to report on Soviet reforms; however, was exposed to the realities of the regime. She wrote for numerous newspapers which included the Toronto Telegram[3] and the London Daily Express.[4] She travelled to the far north labour camps and travelled south to Georgia by car with two women from Atlanta. On the way to Georgia, they encountered the starving Ukrainian peasants in Kharkiv. When the women arrived in Tblisi, Georgia, she was arrested on the charge of reporting false news about the USSR.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "New Chapters in the Ukrainian-Jewish Relationship Explored at Canada's Limmud FSU (Part 1) – Rhea Clyman - UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter". UJE - Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. 2017-04-19. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ↑ Applebaum, Anne (2017). Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780385538862. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Writer witnessed the horrors of prewar Soviet Union". The Canadian Jewish News. 2015-12-29. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  4. ↑ Castle, Colin (2014). Rufus: The Life of the Canadian Journalist Who Interviewed Hitler. BookBaby. ISBN 9781926991382. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  5. ↑ Prokopenko, Maria (25 May 2017). "Unstoppable hunger for truth". Day Kyiv. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
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