This website contains over five thousand concise biographies of individuals who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely.
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Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones (1905-1935)
The journalist Gareth Jones from Barry was the first to bring the terrible famine in Ukraine, the Holdomor, to the attention of the world in March 1933.
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