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- | ''[[A Child at Gunpoint]]'' is the informal title to one of the [[photo]]s [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06b.jpg] of [[Stroop Report]][http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stroop_Report]. It is one of the most [[iconic photo]]s of the twentieth century. | + | |
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- | The original German caption reads "Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern hervorgeholt" ("[[Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs]]"). | + | |
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- | More than any other photos, this famous photograph captures the essence of the horrors of Holocaust: Warsaw 1943, a little Jewish boy, dressed in short trousers and a cap, raises his arms in [[surrender]] with lowered eyes, as a [[Nazi soldier]] [[Josef_Blösche]] trains his machine gun on him. | + | |
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- | :"Widely regarded as the most [[haunting]] image we have of the [[Holocaust]], the photo of a young boy with his [[hands up]] being driven from the [[Warsaw ghetto]] has served as a [[touchstone]] for everyone from the Nuremberg prosecutors to [[Elie Wiesel]], and from [[Susan Sontag]] to revisionist ranters on the web." --[[Richard Raskin]] | + | |
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- | The photo is a moment in the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising|Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] during [[World War II]]. | + | |
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- | ==People identified== | + | |
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- | People identified in the picture: | + | |
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- | *Boy in the front was not recognized, some possible identities: Artur Dab Siemiatek, Levi Zelinwarger (next to his mother Chana Zelinwarger) and [[Tsvi C. Nussbaum|Tsvi Nussbaum]]. | + | |
- | *Hanka Lamet - small girl on the left | + | |
- | *Matylda Lamet Goldfinger - Hanka's mother next to her (second from the left) | + | |
- | *Leo Kartuziński - far back with white bag on his shoulder | + | |
- | *Golda Stavarowski - also in the back, first woman from the right, with one hand raised | + | |
- | *[[Josef Blösche|Josef Blösche]] - SS man with the gun | + | |
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- | ==See also== | + | |
- | *[[World War II]] | + | |
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- | [[Category:WAC]] | + |
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