FRAGMENTS
In July 2016, I started an online project which consisted of 55 Facebook posts introducing photography and photographers during WWII. The...
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FRAGMENTS | Edward Steichen
Edward Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, who at the age of 60, after retirement, was invited by...
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FRAGMENTS | The Little Boy and the Fat Man
In August, 1945, on the orders of President Truman, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb on...
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FRAGMENTS | Ernst Haas
Between the years 1935-1938, the Austrian Jewish photographer Ernst Haas studied art, philosophy and science at a private school until...
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FRAGMENTS | Yevgeny Khaldei
Yevgeny Khaldei was a Soviet photographer born in the Ukraine, of Jewish origin, known for his photographs from World War II, and...
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FRAGMENTS | Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Brock-White, an American photographer and documentary photographer, was the first woman to work as a war correspondent and also...
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FRAGMENTS | Robert Capa
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded Normandy in France and began what is considered the largest offensive in history. Initially, the...
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FRAGMENTS | Dresden
On February 13-15, 1945, 722 British RAF bombs and 522 American Air Force bombs dropped 3,900 tons of explosives on Dresden. About 25,000...
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FRAGMENTS | Zdenek Tmej
Zdenek Tmej was a famous Czech photographer who became famous mainly for his photographs from the war period. His photographs have been...
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FRAGMENTS | Auschwitz
The Auschwitz concentration camp was established in May 1940. The camp was first established to incarcerate Polish political prisoners,...
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FRAGMENTS | Dogs at War
The use of dogs as an auxiliary force for armies developed during World War II. At the outbreak of the war, the United States Army had...
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FRAGMENTS | Resistance
Resistance movements were established in every occupied country and acted in various ways such as non-cooperation, providing misleading...
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FRAGMENTS | The Attack on Pearl Harbor
On December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The attack was carried out by the...
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FRAGMENTS | Dmitri Baltermants
Dmitri Baltermants was a Jewish Russian photographer who worked for the Kremlin as a war photographer. Baltermants documented the Battle...
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FRAGMENTS | William Shrout and the American Houswife
In 1941, Life magazine sent the American photographer, William Shrout , to document the lives of housewives, who numbered approximately...
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FRAGMENTS | Frank Errigo
The self-taught photographer, Frank Errigo, was one of two to whom the Pentagon provided color negatives. Errigo, who immigrated with his...
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FRAGMENTS | Play It Again Sam
The musical revolution began in World War II. This was the period when the radio received a place of honor in homes and its distribution...
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FRAGMENTS | Children as Soldiars
Many children from different armies took part in the fighting, either together with the Axis forces or with the Allied forces. In the...
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FRAGMENTS | Soviet Snipers
The snipers of the Soviet Union played an important role in World War II. Their role was remote cover and elimination of targets such as...
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FRAGMANTS | Toni Frissell
The United States Army, which was subject to the Jim Crow laws - a derogatory term for blacks - which established absolute segregation...
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