Rhea Clyman
Rhea Clyman, c. 1932
Rhea Clyman (1904–1981) was a Canadian journalist who travelled the USSR and reported about the Holodomor. She was famously expelled from the USSR in 1932. Early life Clyman was born in 1904 in Poland. She moved with her Jewish parents, Solomon and Anna Kleiman, to Toronto two years later. She was run over by a streetcar while a child and lost part of her leg. Because her father had died, she left school early, working in a factory to help support her family. Career As a young woman Clyman worked in New York, and then moved to London. She worked as a researcher for New York Times reporter Walter Duranty, and then took a job as a foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. In 1928, at the … Continue Reading (2 minute read)