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3.The HIROSHIMA STEPS SHADOW
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On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb killed 70,000 people instantly. The bomb generated unimaginable heat, so much so that many were incinerated leaving haunting shadows on the objects which surrounded them.

A person with a walking stick, who was perhaps climbing the stairs, was burnt to death in a fraction of a second, and his disengaging body casted a permanent shadow. These “nuclear shadows” tell us that a city buzzing with people doing their morning chores was destroyed in virtually an instance.

There was no way to discover the identity of this person, but he immortalized the animosity of war and frailties of human life. He, perhaps, was just an ordinary man when alive, but after his death, his shadow became an iconic symbol of nuclear tragedy
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4. The last Jew in Vinnitsa...
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During the early 1940s when World War II was at its peak, Nazis planned a systematic genocide of Jews. The regions of Europe occupied by Germany were ethnically cleansed of Jews.

The iconic photograph known as “The last Jew in Vinnitsa” pictures the execution of a Jewish man in the Ukranian town of Vinnytsia. Around 28,000 Jews were killed in Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas.

The photograph was named after the inscription behind it: “Last Jew of Vinnitsa”. The photograph evokes chills. There is a helpless man sitting on the edge of a mass human grave with no expression on his face at all and there is nothing he can do but to accept his fate. He eventually became the face of the helpless Jewish agony
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