Caption: German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, USSR.
Photo Courtesy: United States Holocaust Memorial [Photograph #64407]
My friend Abhijit Bhatlekar from Mint sent me this link. Polish photographer Maciek Nabrdalik, who is part of the mentorship programme started by James Nachtwey's agency VII, decided that he needed to capture the faces of the survivors of the Holocaust before they fade away forever into history.
I think the concept and the pictures are brilliant. Do check Maciek Nabradik’s project Also read the reader comments on this New York Times photo blog, and tell me what you think of these pictures.
2 comments:
Some images are simply wonderful..the others, I don't personally think I needed 10 in this set...but like some comments state, i'd have been more in awe of the life they have built post this trauma, their smiles after this purgatory would have been doubly stronger as imagery
Noble project. The Holocaust is one event whose scars are yet to heal (today, incidentally, is the birth anniv of Hitler). The atrocities perpertrated by seemingly ordinary men (and women) on other ordinary men and women is a reflection of what ideology can do to mankind. Most of the Waffen-SS troopers were middle class people, many of them from the countryside, who under normal circumstances would have ordinary men and women leading a normal life. I recently read a wonderful account of a woman who grew up in Bavaria, close to the Berchtesgarden headquarters of Nazi Germany. Its a telling account of society in those tumultous years.
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