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Alfred Palmer's color photographs for the US Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information speak with a loud, bold, clear and consistent voice. They say: 'Heroes.'
BU 9707. Helene Kopper: sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
The nameless Marine stares blankly into the distance, his vacant eyes peeled inhumanly wide. According to the artist, he’s a combat veteran of both the enemy and tropical disease.
Haunting color photos made by Adolf Hitler's personal photographer, Hugo Jaeger, in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939 and 1940.
“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him.”
BU 9699. Hildegard Lohbauer: sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
Cornucopia: Turkey for Connoisseurs
Of the countless photos made during World War II, Margaret Bourke-White's portrait of Buchenwald survivors remains among the most haunting.
BU 9695. Frieda Walter: sentenced to 3 years imprisonment.
Тыл и фронт летом 1941 года
Jacob and Israel Byniecki, Myriam Byniecki Nationality : Jewish Residence : Paris, France Death : August 19, 1942 -September 20, 1942 Cause : Murdered in Auschwitz ( buried in Auschwitz death camp ) Age : 10 years, 9 years People in photo include: Jacob Bynieki, Israel Bynieki, and Myriam Bynieki
Discovered after her death at Auschwitz, the artist’s graphic record of her life unfolds in startlingly poignant scenes, from her mother’s graveside to her lover’s bed
Quando ci congediamo da una persona a noi molto cara o che amiamo profondamente non ci soffermiamo a riflettere sull'eventualità di non vederla mai più. Quel pensiero non ci sfiora mai e siamo quasi del tutto certi che la rivedremo presto. Nelle fotografie toccanti selezionate da Bored Panda le persone ritratte non sapevano quando avrebbero potuto rivedersi. Forse mai più.
This is a photo of Judit Nemes added by Alyssa McIntosh on March 4, 2020.
Looking through the long arc of time it’s easy to see the big moments, the major wins and losses, but it’s the small stories and characters who slip through the cracks of the history books that are the most interesting. Theirs are the stories that feel the most human, and provide context for grand historical moments that feel more like stories in a book than something that actually happened.These photos tell the history of people who rose to the occasion to make a change for the better, and who stood up for themselves when faced with impending doom.
Visit ICP's Roman Vishniac exhibition website. Roman Vishniac ...
These three angels were sadly murdered at Auschwitz Death Camp in 1944 at age 4, 7 & 2 years.
Once forbidden from speaking their native language, Navajo troops developed an unbreakable code from it.
The Lodz Ghetto was the second-largest ghetto (after the Warsaw Ghetto) established for Jews and Roma in German-occupied Poland. Situated in the city of Łódź and originally intended as a temporary gathering point for Jews, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, providing much needed supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the German Army. Because of its remarkable productivity, the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944, when the remaining population was transported to Auschwitz and Chełmno extermination camp. It was the last ghetto in Poland to be liquidated.
Almost half a century after World War II, in an abandoned, dust-filled storage shed beside an old photography studio in Esfahan, Iran, Parisa Damandan found a unique collection of stunning Diane Arbus-esque photographs shot by Abolqasem Jala that are reminders of war in general and World War II’s human displacement. These discoveries were revealed in a book titled The Children of Esfahan, published in Tehran. The images were studio photos of Polish refugees in Iran, children
