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In 1944, Lee Miller was assigned at the siege of St Malo. That event plunged her unexpectedly into combat photography. Before, that role was totally forbidden for a woman. She acted with bravery and total competence under fire. There is the kind of image only a surrealist could take. Perhaps the best training for being a war correspondent is to recalibrate your perception of “normal”’.

The reason why I took this picture is because it really shows the truth of WW2 and how absurd this war was. The boot is probably representing the damages and barbarism during the war, showing that literally nothing is left except a single boot and some ammunition.

In the movie, an entire scene takes place in St Malo. Between the shell fires, Lee Miller is able to take some pictures but she risks her life for it. It shows us how much Lee Miller was determined with her photographic work.

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This photograph represents a woman who has been shaved because she was considered as a traitor. Indeed, she collaborated with the Germans by having intimate relationships with one of them.

I choose this picture because it’s impacting. We can notice that the woman has a lost gaze. She seems deeply sad and hurt like she’s regretting something. I think she doesn’t deserve what she went trough even if people think it is horrible because of all the things Germans have done during the Second World War.

In link with the movie, I choose this picture because I think it has impacted Lee Miller too. When she was a child, she has been raped. Maybe she could recognize herself in this gaze, maybe she has empathy towards this woman.

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I chose this picture because when I saw the scene in the movie, I found it moving.

I felt angry that people would rather choose to die than to live in the war’s dark times. But I understand it somehow. This picture feels like the woman is finally in peace, and gets the rest she deserves.

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Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections

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Photograph by Lee Miller, ‘Bürgermeister of Leipzig’s daughter after suicide, Germany’, from the portfolio ‘Quintessential Lee Miller’. | Miller, Lee | Miller, Lee | V&A Explore The Collections

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Photograph by Lee Miller, ‘Bürgermeister of Leipzig’s daughter after suicide, Germany’, from the portfolio ‘Quintessential Lee Miller: Six photographs by Lee Miller selected by Mark Haworth-Booth’, gelatin silver print, 1945 reprinted 2007. Lee Miller was one of the only female photojournalists who covered the frontline during WWII. In this powerful yet harrowing photograph, Miller captures a portrait of Regina Lisso, who’s family collectively committed suicide in the Leipzig Neues Rathaus (town hall) just as American troops were entering the city on 20 April 1945. Lisso was found with her father, Deputy Mayor Dr. Kurt Lisso and her mother Renate Lubbert, as well as other notable military personnel who had all ingest cyanide. The scene of the suicides was extensively photographed by other photographers at the scene, including Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White.

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This photograph was taken by Lee Miller in 1941 after the fire in the Vogue Magazine studio. It is a documentary photograph. Lee told the women to sit there with fire masks.

I think this moment was really touching and strong because everyone was devastated and sad because of the fire. However, Lee stayed determined and strong and took this picture.

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Fire Masks, London, England, 1941 - Lee Miller - WikiArt.org

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This photography is really heartbreaking. Seeing dead innocent people is really disturbing, even the soldiers looked shocked. I chose this photo because it carries a powerful message and very strong emotions. In the movie the same photo was taken by Lee Miller.

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Lilian : I chose this photo because I think it shows how the deportees were treated. We can see that there were stacked one on top of another. There also aren't any mattresses, which shows the unhealthy conditions of the concentration camps. The deportees are all wearing the same clothes and they're all thin which show they didn't have many food. The link with the film is that in it we can see prisonners in Dachau who are eating in their barrack.

Matteo : I chose this picture because it shows all the horros that happened in the camps back in the day. Some of the prisonners seem happy to be freed from the war and some of them look sad because they have been locked in there for a few years. The link with the movie is that Lee and David were there in the camp at the time when the prisonners were freed from the camp which is an important part of the film.

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Mathis: I was impressed by the courage of Lee miller. She dicided to provocate adolf hitler but he was dead when she took the picture. When I look to the picture I see the determination in her eyes.

Mickael : I chose this pictures because this photo represent the bravour of this woman being nude in bath of Hitler showing us the fight she did for show to entire world the reality of the war and a way to insult the nazisme.

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This picture reminds me the pictures taken by Lee MILLER in the train with corpses.  This scene has choked to me because the last year I realised a travel in Verdun and I visit concentration camp of Stuthof.  After this travel, I didn’t think I can see this horror a new time. But the film have prouve to me that possible. The memories come back and make me sad because I had seen the violence in the reel camp.

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Before the war, Lee Miller and her friends were free and happy.

This photo make a contrast of the life before the war and during the war.

In this photograph, they didin’t know what happened in Europe.

This photo shocked us because they looked happy whereas in Europe there was the war. After The WW2, Lee Miller will never see the life in the same way as before. So , She realized that the moments she spent with her friends were precious.

Because of the war, she never will be the same person as before but when  the photo was taken, she didn’t know what will happened in the future.

The scene happened at the beginging of the film.

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I found this photo really touching because of the looks of the victims who was very well represented in the movie. I think that this kind of violences are interesting because it was sexist violences and it was a sort of revenge after the war. On the photography we can see a man laughing next to his victime. I think it's interesting to show every kind of violence even the one that were considered as legitimate at the time.

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This picture is powerful. It is horrible to know that everything we saw really happened, in real life.
In the movie, this was one of the most disturbing but also emotional and very meaningful scene. My personal favorite one. We can see how brave Lee Miller was and how amazing her self control was as well.

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This piano represents the destruction of London by the Blitz. We can see the scrapps of a house destroyed by bombs. In the foreground, there are people who go in front this instrument without care because is probably normal for them (but it isn't normal).

This destruction takes place at the start of the movie. Indeed at the beginning Lee Miller goes in front of buildings in ruins.

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I chose this photo because we really can feel the frightening ambiance that is expressed through this picture

The audience that saw this picture can be shocked but they don’t even seem to be scared.They look powerless  which is even more sad and horrifying .

The man on the right side and the man in the center look like skeletons so we can suppose they were mistreated and undernourished

They also seem to sleep on mess kits and those bed don’t even look like some. They’re treated like they were animals.

This picture reminds me of the moment where she enters in the train and discover tones of dead bodies and the fact that we know how it’ll end  makes me feel bad

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YAUM’s PHOTO DIARY: Lee Miller World War II Photographs

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Trouvé grâce à Bing sur gerryyaum.blogspot.com

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I think this photography is really remarkable because we can see they are all very thin and starving.

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This picture was taken on April 30, 1945 by Lee Miller. It's represents the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in Germany. This picture shows the full horror of the Nazi concentration camps . It was heartbreaking to see the people thin with pyjamas, i can see their bone.

That were both documentary evidence and shows human suffering.

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I've already chosen this picture before I saw the film. However I choose it today for different reasons.

When I first saw this picture, I was attracted by it because I liked the colour contrasts and camera angle which gives an impression to be the person who's being

operated.

Now, thanks to the movie, I understand all the sacrifices Lee Millers had to do in order to be at this place at this exact moment to capture this piece of History.

I admire the way Lee does everything she can to pay tribute to people doing everything they can to help too, such as surgeons during WW2.

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Lee Miller joined British Vogue as a fashion photographer in January 1940. At 32, her credentials for the role were impeccable - she had lived and worked with the surrealist Man Ray in Paris in the late 1920s, then run a chic photography studio in 1930s New York.

She soon became one of the magazine's most treasured contributors - of words as well as pictures. Her first written article appeared in May 1943, alongside her photographs of the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, where US Army nurses were busily "grafting, splicing and welding... bones, tissues, nerves". Miller's eye for surreal detail lands on bodies contorted in physiotherapy, or racks of sterilised gloves.

Next month, these pictures are the subject of an exhibition at the Fitzrovia Chapel (formerly part of Middlesex Hospital) in London. Also on show are Miller's shots of an evacuation hospital near Omaha Beach, Normandy, in the wake of the 1944 D-Day landings - her first dispatch from the front proper.

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Vogue goes to war: Lee Miller's snapshots from the 'shock ward'

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In the 1940s, the Vogue photographer swapped fashion models for front-line nurses - and the grisly consequences of war

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léonie : This is a photograph by lee miller which was taken in 1941. I chose this picture because the message is very feminist. Lee miller took a picture of 2 women whereas it was forbidden to woman to fight . I think it is NOT normal . If a woman wants to fight for her country she has the right ! With her photos lee millers shows that even if a woman does not fight, she suffers the psychological violence of war. the helmet of the two young woman protect them . To conclude this woman were unable to participate in the second world war but they have undergone psychologique violences like fire ... So they are brave

Léa :

I choose this picture because i think it represent a very feminist message and being a woman this particularly affects me. When women were not alowed to help during the second world war, Lee shows two women with war masks to send a message that women are strong and that they can help a lot because they are brave and smart. This picture touch me a lot because even today, women are underrated in many areas.

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Lee Miller was a very talented professional photographer. This picture represente Hitler's humiliation. A pair of boots is placed on the bathroom to ridicule him. The photo feels both intimate and defiant. Lee Miller and David E. Scherman want to show the horror. This scene is important.

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This picture is very heartbreaking, a woman with her hair shaved, a sad expression on the face. The actress gave me goosebumps, she was having a hard time. I felt angry in front of this scene because people did not understand that she was in love and the man manipulated her… even though it was a big mistakes this girl didn’t deserve that

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This photograph was taken in 1943 by Lee Miller. We can see it in the movie.

These women we can see on the picture helped the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS). They were called "Wrens". They had an important place in this war (WW2) so it's essential to represent them.

In the movie, it is the moment when David E. Scherman met for the first time Lee Miller. This meeting was inevitable and in was natural for both of them. It mark the beginnig of a strong and helpful friendship and work collaboration.

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Lee Miller : retour sur une photographe d'exception | Actuphoto

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I chose this picture because we can really feel the distress in their gaze. Especially the first man on the right side who is looking at the camera with fright.

Every deportees are piled up on little beds who look more like shelves.

This picture makes me think ok the moment where Lee Miller entered in the camps. These two scenes are terrifying and make me uncomfortable.

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This photo is very creative and very glamour.

Even in the war, fashion was very present and important to show yourself and also the dangerousness of the war. We can see a strong young woman, she looks like a rich woman.

I chose this picture because it's a mix of beauty and violence.

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Source de l'image:

https://www.passion cinema.ch/lee-miller-2

This photograph shows the panic of Lee Miller because in his face we can feel his astonishment. The scene takes place during the war. She is imprissionned and shocked by the damage of the situation. She is a determinated girl. During this reportage of for the British Vogue she can immortalise the scene's hearthbreaking through her photographs. So this photograph is very disturbing because Lee Miller has seen terrible scenes during the battles.

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Tokyo 2023, Prix spécial du Jury et Prix de la meilleure actrice |
Venise 2023, Prix Brian |

de Ellen Kuras
avec Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, Alexander Skarsgård, etc.

Tandis que la Deuxième Guerre mondiale fait rage, Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, ancien mannequin et égérie du surréalisme, ressent l'irrépressible besoin de se rendre utile. Parvenue à se faire engager comme reporter pour le British Vogue, elle immortalise tout d'abord sur la pellicule les ravages causés par le Blitz dans les rues de Londres. Faisant fi des conventions, elle partira finalement sur le front en 1944, devenant l'une des premières femmes photographes de guerre. Cheffe opératrice pour Spike Lee et Michel Gondry, l'Américaine Ellen Kuras signe ici son premier long-métrage en tant que réalisatrice. Son sens de l'image fait merveille dans ce biopic féministe produit et interprété par Kate Winslet, impériale dans le rôle de cette héroïne à l'esprit libre et au courage exemplaire.

LEE, Etats-Unis / Royaume-Uni, 2024, couleur, 1h56, programme n°268

LEE - DIE FOTOGRAFIN

Bern

CineABC, 20:30

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I have chosen this picture and it makes me feel bad for them because they don't really know why their are here and what are the reasons.

They don't deserve this, they are humans too. If Lee Miller takes this picture of this people it's because she want to share their lives and prove how it's mean for them.

When I saw that picture in the movie, it

hurted me and made me think about it a lot.

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Temps de lecture: 4 min

Elle a toujours eu une excellente mémoire des détails, même ceux qui paraissent insignifiants. Interrogée par le professeur David P. Boder en septembre 1946, Helen "Zippi" Spitzer Tichauer (1918-2018) se remémore la tenue qu'elle portait en débarquant du train qui l'emmenait de Bratislava à Auschwitz. "Je savais que nous n'allions pas en ville, mais plutôt dans une zone rurale. Je me suis donc habillée en fonction", enfilant "de très bonnes chaussures de marche, les plus solides et durables que j'avais".

Comme ces autres 999 jeunes femmes juives à l'incroyable destin, ayant composé le premier convoi vers le camp d'extermination le 26 mars 1942 (et auxquelles nous avons consacré la série des "Oubliées d'Auschwitz"), Helen s'était portée volontaire pour partir travailler. Ses parents sont restés à Bratislava, en Slovaquie. "Nous étions des femmes célibataires, jeunes, appelées à collaborer." Personne, de crainte que leurs parents subissent des représailles, n'a vraiment osé refuser.

Helen et ses compatriotes ont été trahies, explique-t-elle à Boder, par leur propre gouvernement: "Hitler a donné à la Slovaquie son indépendance. En échange, notre Premier ministre Vojtech Tuka lui a offert 60.000 juifs, mis à disposition des Allemands."

Arrivée juste après les 999, dans le deuxième convoi, elle a hérité du matricule 2.286. "Parmi les premiers, ceux des femmes arrivées en mars 1942 à Auschwitz." Il fait froid en cette fin de mars, mais Helen a pris la précaution de mettre "un bon gros manteau de laine, des gants et un turban d'angora tricoté, vert bouteille".

Instinct de survie et culpabilité

Une épidémie de typhus se répand à Auschwitz, transmise par la vermine qui y pullule. Il faut attendre que le médecin en chef du camp y succombe en 1944 pour que la menace soit prise au sérieux. Faute d'antibiotiques, le camp est fumigé -et les prisonniers malades exécutés sans délai. Helen l'attrape, et se sait condamnée. Jusqu'au jour où un SS demande à la cantonade une prisonnière sachant peindre ou dessiner, afin d'appliquer une bande de peinture sur les vêtements des prisonniers dans le but de distinguer les différents groupes.

Trouver un violon pour Alma, explique-t-elle, n'a pas été compliqué: les SS étaient fous de sa musique.

Helen-Zippi, qui a été formée au design graphique, convient d'autant mieux au rôle qu'elle parle allemand. Elle commence ainsi par appliquer les bandes sur les vêtements des prisonniers. Puis on lui ordonne de peindre des chiffres sur des placards, des panneaux, des inscriptions sur des façades et autres tâches "sans intérêt" censées fluidifier l'organisation du camp. En échange, elle a la vie sauve et peut obtenir des rations de nourriture supplémentaires.

Comme Helena Citron, dont la liaison avec un geôlier nazi lui a permis de survivre, ou les sœurs Danka et Rena Kornreich, chargées de trier les effets personnels enlevés aux nouveaux arrivants dans les entrepôts du "Kanada", Helen est tiraillée entre profonde culpabilité et instinct de survie.

L'orchestre d'Auschwitz

La jeune femme possède un autre talent: celui de jouer de la mandoline. Elle rejoint le fameux orchestre d'Auschwitz -chargé de divertir les SS, particulièrement friands de tango comme en témoigne Helen Spitzer, mais également d'accompagner les prisonniers à la chambre à gaz pour tenter de les apaiser- auprès de la célèbre violoniste Alma Rosé, nièce du compositeur Gustave Mahler.

Helen n'est plus impressionnée: "Tellement de gens célèbres venaient à Auschwitz que ça devenait insignifiant." Richard Newman, auteur du livre Alma Rosé - De Vienne à Auschwitz, a recueilli en 1983 les souvenirs d'Helen. Devenue un membre de l'équipe chargée de l'organisation de Birkenau (Auschwitz II), elle a accompagné Alma et une délégation de musiciens pour demander la permission de récupérer quelques instruments parmi "les milliers volés aux gens qui avaient été amenés au camp".

Trouver un violon pour Alma, explique-t-elle, n'a pas été compliqué: les SS étaient fous de sa musique. Avec une alliée dans les bureaux du camp en la personne d'Helen Spitzer Tichauer, qui fournissait le papier sur lequel d'autres femmes traçaient les lignes de partition, Rosé faisait rédiger ses arrangements par une équipe de copistes. Alma prend la direction de l'orchestre en août 1943, jusqu'à sa mort l'année suivante.

La première maquette d'Auschwitz-Birkenau

L'exécution d'une étonnante maquette en trois dimensions du camp (les plans architecturaux tracés jusque-là comportent de nombreuses erreurs) doit à Helen une position particulièrement privilégiée.

"Tout y était, même les fils barbelés, la lumière qui balayait l'ensemble du camp..." Un électricien avait aidé Helen. "Sous la table, un interrupteur était caché." Les SS étaient alors "très impressionnés, la maquette est allée jusqu'à Berlin".

À Birkenau, la confiance relative qui lui est accordée lui permet de jouir d'une rare liberté.

Pour réaliser la maquette, Helen a dérogé aux règles et mesuré, des mois durant, chaque bâtiment du camp. Les détails gravés dans sa mémoire permettront plus tard de rectifier les plans dessinés à partir de photos aériennes, et apporteront des éléments d'information cruciaux à l'histoire. Ils ont notamment joué un rôle dans le procès des anciens SS en 1947 (les "Quarante bouchers"), au cours duquel elle témoignera.

Les très nombreux témoignages d'Helen Spitzer Tichauer lors des soixante-dix années suivantes seront passés au crible par de nombreux spécialistes et historiens, qui confirmeront leur crédibilité, "chaque instant de ses multiples témoignages étant vérifié et recoupé, confirmé et corroboré".

Le secret de Zippi

À Birkenau, la confiance relative qui lui est accordée lui permet de jouir d'une rare liberté. Helen en profite pour falsifier des courriers et papiers officiels en effaçant les matricules de condamnés. David Wisnia a pu en témoigner: dans ses mémoires, cet ancien enfant prodige de la chanson polonaise raconte comment il a été sauvé, une première fois, par son filet de voix et a pu rejoindre l'orchestre.

Mais c'est dans une interview de Wisnia réalisée par le New York Times en 2019 que ce dernier dévoile un secret qu'Helen n'avait jamais trahi: comment Auschwitz a abrité leurs amours clandestines. Zippi était âgée de 25 ans, il en avait 17.

Ils savaient qu'ils seraient un jour séparés et avaient décidé d'un plan pour être réunis après la guerre. Tous deux ont survécu; mais David a suivi l'armée américaine qui l'a sauvé, tandis qu'Helen a épousé Erwin Tichauer, chef de la sécurité d'un camp de personnes déplacées. Helen et Erwin sont ensuite partis aux États-Unis, où ce dernier enseignait la bio-ingénierie à New York. Mais ce n'est qu'en 2016 qu'Helen et David se sont revus.

David Wisnia lui demanda alors de confirmer que c'est bien à elle qu'il devait d'avoir eu la vie sauve. "Cinq fois", chuchota Zippi, avant de lui demander de chanter pour elle. Elle s'est éteinte deux ans plus tard, âgée de 100 ans.

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Helen Spitzer Tichauer, prisonnière juive et designer graphique d'Auschwitz-Birkenau

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En travaillant pour les nazis, elle a sauvé sa vie et celle d'autres. La maquette du camp réalisée par ses soins a apporté un éclairage crucial et toujours d'actualité sur l'Holocauste.

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It was very interesting to discover this woman. In this picture, we can think she is superficial because of our stereotypes, but in the movie, I found out her personality. She was a very courageous and inspiring woman.

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I chose this photo because it makes me feel so emotional. It was the beginning of the Second World War and she was in France with her friends. They were all very happy, spending their days having fun and enjoying the good life. They were always taking pictures of each other to keep the memories alive and because that's what Lee Miller was all about. You can see from these scenes that Lee was really happy and loved what she was doing. Until she went to the front to continue her career and take pictures at the front. She still loved what she was doing, but she discovered what it was like behind the scenes and saw the conditions of this terrible war.

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I found this picture interesting because of the contrast between the sun umbrella which represents the sun and the joy and the gaz mask which symbolises the war. This two signification are like opposites and it is kinda poetic.

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I choose this picture because it remind that there are some people who weren’t in conctration camp and died even. This scene made me cried because it was a young women who could be someone I know.  When Lee discovered the dead body it is hearth broken because a whole family suicide because they were desperate. It is a this moment of the movie that we understand that not only the people in the concentration camp or soldier died but also people who lived constanly in the fear. It is particulary touching because I think that Lee Miller saw herself in the womanshe photographed.

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I choose this photo because this seen chocked me in the film. This women is distraught of her situation, because his family (her man and her son) came to the war and don’t come back. She is skeletal because the war have destroid her home and she didn’t have reason to be alive now. She have lost her smile and we can see the terror in her eyes. This seen shows us a lost women who waited desperately his son and his man during she risks her life.

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I think it is very surprising to see the actual state of the deported in a picture, cuz usually we are just told what happened and can't really imagine how they were actually starving and in extremely bad condition.