Tag: World War II

“We Went Back: Photographs from Europe, 1933 – 1956″: Chim at the International Center of Photography

When did the Berlin Zoo stop displaying humans? 1931, I think, but I’m not sure.

Guillermo kissed her and she was not afraid of his tongue and his hands on her body, and she wanted to stay with him all night, wanted to lie down on the wet earth, but he turned around and began walking back, pulling her behind him, and soon they were out on the road and the sound of the insects grew distant, and the trees no longer protected them from the stars.

A photographer combines her father’s musings of daily life in basic training with WWII itself.

On the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII, the novelist discusses the oral histories of Jewish survivors, the Nazi looting of art, and Pictures at an Exhibition.

“Historians hate to make predictions.”