American photographer Julien Bryan, who took this picture, describes it like this:
“When we were passing through small fields on the outskirts of the city, we were late for a few minutes to witness the tragic event. Seven women were digging potatoes in the field. There was no flour in their neighborhood and they were desperate to find something to eat.
Suddenly two planes appeared in the sky and dropped two bombs on the house a few hundred meters away from them. Two women in the building were killed. People in the field rushed to the ground, hoping that the pilots would not notice them. When the planes flew away, the women returned to work – they had to get food.
Unfortunately, the Germans were not satisfied. After a few minutes they returned and went down to a height of several hundred meters above the ground, this time using machine guns. Two of the seven women were killed. When I photographed the place of the tragedy, a teenage girl ran up to one of the bodies and looked at one body as if she could not believe what had happened. The victim was her older sister. The child had never seen death before and could not understand why her sister would not speak to her … The girl looked at us in shock. I embraced her and held her tight, trying to comfort her. She was crying. Me too, like two Polish officers who were with me.”
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I imagine that was the first day of a really bad part of her life. I can only imagine what she had to endure later from the Germans and, if she survived that long, the Soviets.
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American photographer Julien Bryan, who took this picture, describes it like this:
“When we were passing through small fields on the outskirts of the city, we were late for a few minutes to witness the tragic event. Seven women were digging potatoes in the field. There was no flour in their neighborhood and they were desperate to find something to eat.
Suddenly two planes appeared in the sky and dropped two bombs on the house a few hundred meters away from them. Two women in the building were killed. People in the field rushed to the ground, hoping that the pilots would not notice them. When the planes flew away, the women returned to work – they had to get food.
Unfortunately, the Germans were not satisfied. After a few minutes they returned and went down to a height of several hundred meters above the ground, this time using machine guns. Two of the seven women were killed. When I photographed the place of the tragedy, a teenage girl ran up to one of the bodies and looked at one body as if she could not believe what had happened. The victim was her older sister. The child had never seen death before and could not understand why her sister would not speak to her … The girl looked at us in shock. I embraced her and held her tight, trying to comfort her. She was crying. Me too, like two Polish officers who were with me.”
repete66219
I imagine that was the first day of a really bad part of her life. I can only imagine what she had to endure later from the Germans and, if she survived that long, the Soviets.