4k, 50fps, colorized (1939) WWII begins: Siege of Warsaw
In memory of the young girl, Kazimiera Mika and her sister. As we drove by a small field at the edge of town we were just a few minutes too late to witness a tragic event, the most incredible of all. Seven women had been digging potatoes in a field. There was no flour in their district, and they were desperate for food. Suddenly two German planes appeared from nowhere and dropped two bombs only two hundred yards away on a small home. Two women in the house were killed. The potato diggers dropped flat upon the ground, hoping to be unnoticed. After the bombers had gone, the women returned to their work. They had to have food. But the Nazi fliers were not satisfied with their work. In a few minutes they came back and swooped down to within two hundred feet of the ground, this time raking the field with machinegun fire. Two of the seven women were killed. The other five escaped somehow. While I was photographing the bodies, a little tenyear old girl came running up and stood transfixed by one of th
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