An interesting figure that a relative of Abe Elenkrig mentioned to me. Related by marriage to the Elenkrig relatives who lived in #Toronto. She was a Polish-born Jewish journalist who covered the Holodomor & the rise of Nazi Germany.
"In 1928, at 24, Clyman travelled to the USSR to report on Soviet reforms. However, she was exposed to the realities of the regime. She wrote for many newspapers, including the Toronto Telegram and the London Daily Express."
"She travelled to the far north labour camps and [...] to Soviet Georgia by car with two women from Atlanta. On the way, they encountered starving Ukrainian peasants in Kharkiv. When Clyman arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia, she was arrested on the charge of reporting false news about the USSR and soon deported.
From 1933 to 1938, she worked in Nazi Germany, reporting for the London Daily Telegraph. In 1938, she had to leave the country urgently because of growing reprisals against the Jews." [...]
"The plane she was riding crashed while landing in Amsterdam; Clyman was injured but survived and recovered.
From 1938 to 1941, she worked in Montreal as a correspondent for London Daily Express, and then moved to New York, where she led a quiet life until she died in 1981."
#JournalismHistory #Journalism
Rhea Clyman was also one of the first North Americans to report on the horrors of the Holodomor. Now, a University of Alberta historian is working to ensure her legacy is not forgotten.
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