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When they disconnected my uncle and said he’s dead, I stayed watching him, he had his hand clinging to mine and even so it was still warm.
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I continued to observe him, he seemed asleep, perhaps 3 or 4 minutes had passed and his skin color was the same. Suddenly, from his face a veil began to fall, which every time it descended, leaving his mummified and disfigured yellow appearance. Under this non-transparent veil, soft and not…
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On This Day, September 29, 1941, the massacre at Babi Yar began.
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Over the course of two days, 33,771 Jews were murdered in the Babi Yar ravine, located on the outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine (USSR). A week after the Germans captured Kiev, they decided to massacre the city’s Jews. The Jews were ordered to assemble in the morning for…
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An Australian soldier driving Japanese Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi to the Wom Airstrip, New Guinea for the formal New Guinea surrender ceremony, 13 Sep 1945
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Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi commanded the Japanese forces on New Guinea from November 1942 until the end of the Second World War. He took command of the Eighteenth Army after the death of Lieutenant General Tomitaro Horii on 23 November 1942, and inherited an army that was already in retreat.…
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Anna war crime : 12 August 1944: The Massacre of St. Anna di Stazzema.
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Sant’Anna di Stazzema is a locality in the province of Lucca, in Tuscany, sadly known for being the site of one of the worst na#ifascist massacre in Western Europe during the Second World War. Introduction note:The na#i/na#ifascist reprisals in Italy are less known to English-speaking readers than Oradour sur Glane’s,…
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company
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Lieutenant William Calley was the officer in charge of Charlie Company, a unit of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Americal Division, during the My Lai massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968. The My Lai massacre was a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, mostly women,…
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This powerful photograph by Bill Brandt, taken in 1937, features a stark yet intimate scene of a coal miner being bathed at home in Chester-Le-Street, Durham, England.
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In the image, a young woman, dressed in a simple apron, gently tends to the miner, who is hunched over in a large basin. His body is covered in grime, a testament to the demanding nature of his work in the coal mines.The setting is a modest, working-class interior, with…
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Coral Saber. Germany, circa 1560. The coral saber is a pure art collection piece with no particular practical function; it was certainly never actually used as a weapon.
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The blade is formed by human art, the handle by the power of nature, so that here the work of man and nature are ideally combined. The key to the object’s meaning is provided by the material coral and its mythical connection with the figure of Jupiter’s son Perseus. In…
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Masaharu Homma
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April 3rd 1946Been found guilty of war crimes related to the treatment of prisoners of War Japanese General Homma Masaharu was executed. Masaharu had been the Japanese Commander that had ordered the American prisoners captured in the Philippines to undergo what became known as the Bataan Death March. Masaharu Homma (Honma…
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Hitoshi Imamura
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Hitoshi Imamura was a Japanese general who, at the end of World War II, was prosecuted for war crimes committed by soldiers under his command against Allied prisoners in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, a relatively mild punishment compared to other…
