THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

Dina Pronicheva could hear the sounds of shooting before she arrived at the ravine outside Kiev in 1941. The Jews of her community had been ordered to gather, and they came by the thousands. As she got closer, she heard the "terrible cries of panic-stricken people and quiet children’s voices calling 'mother, mother …' " A policeman ordered her to undress and pushed her to the edge of the pit. Dina shut her eyes, clenched her fists and tensed every muscle in her body. As bullets rang out, she lost her footing and fell into the masses of bodies, some crying in pain, others already dead.  "During the first moments I couldn't grasp anything—either where I was or how I got there," Dina said in testimony she later gave during a trial. "I thought that I had gone mad, but when people started to fall on top of me, I regained consciousness and understood everything. I started to feel my arms, legs, stomach, [and] head to make certain that I had not even been ...

HORRIFY ME Releases Controversial CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST Tribute Shoot Horrify Me, the award-winning UK studio famous for producing photography of grim horror and scary portraits, has launched a series of images to pay tribute to Cannibal Holocaust. The infamous scene which depicts a young girl impaled on a stake was highly controversial at the time, resulting in the arrest of the director Ruggero Deodato on suspicion of murder. He was of course able to prove his innocence and the film became notorious. To pay tribute to this ground breaking film and to mark the 35th anniversary of it’s release, HORRIFY ME recreated the “impaled girl” scene using the exact same technique as Ruggero Deodato. HORRIFY ME’s creative photographer and artist Rick Jones constructed a prop using well-seasoned timber capable of holding far more weight than it needed, and commissioned an engineer to build a custom bolt which could safely hold a small seat for the model to sit on. The model Harley Rose was briefed...

Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as a topic itself. They were taken inside the epicenter of the horror, from which no other visual material exists. They were taken clandestinely at the height of the Final Solution in 1944 by one of the so-called  Sonderkommando  – Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities by removing the Nazis' victims from the gas chambers and destroying the corpses through fire or mass burial. One of the photographs shows a group of naked women; the others show the cremation of corpses. Poland, Women naked, before their execution If we agree that photography not only reflects reality, but also interprets it, than we need to take a closer look at the photograph...

ICONIC PHOTO FROM THE HOLOCAUST TIME In early April 1945, a few days before liberation, three transports left Bergen-Belsen. Each train carried 2 and a half thousand Jewish prisoners heading to Terezín. One of them took Jews from Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Greece and Slovakia. After a few days the train suddenly stopped and the SS fled from the approaching American soldiers, they were from 743. tank flag 30. 9th Infantry Division the armies. All 2.5 thousand prisoners in transport were finally free. When the surprised prisoners were escaping from the stationary train, one of the soldiers, who were already on the scene, pulled out a camera and recorded the scene. Later, the woman in the photo was accidentally identified. She came from Hungary, she was 35 at the time and held the hand of her 5-year-old daughter while running. The second picture shows this woman at 70. years of the last century with my granddaughter. #neverforget #WeRemember