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"1905, KOBE: Japanese correspondents who interviewed the Russian generals in their arrival at Nagasaki have obtained some historic accounts on the final council of war in Port Arthur, at which the decision to surrender was reached. Altogether twelve generals assembled at General Stoessel’s house. There were also two vacant chairs. On being asked the reason General Stoessel broke into tears, explaining that they formerly belonged to loved ones who had been killed. A discussion followed, during which it became evident that the only alternatives were prompt surrender or speedy annihilation. Meanwhile the artillery thundered outside, and as the shells burst in the vicinity General Stoessel ordered the removal of the Tsar’s photograph, the sole adornment on upon the bare walls of the plain apartment, remarking, “It is not right His Majesty should witness such proceedings.”Jan. 26th, 2005
"1905, KOBE: Japanese correspondents who interviewed the Russian generals in their arrival at Nagasaki have obtained some historic accounts on the final council of war in Port Arthur, at which the decision to surrender was reached. Altogether twelve generals assembled at General Stoessel’s house. There were also two vacant chairs. On being asked the reason General Stoessel broke into tears, explaining that they formerly belonged to loved ones who had been killed. A discussion followed, during which it became evident that the only alternatives were prompt surrender or speedy annihilation. Meanwhile the artillery thundered outside, and as the shells burst in the vicinity General Stoessel ordered the removal of the Tsar’s photograph, the sole adornment on upon the bare walls of the plain apartment, remarking, “It is not right His Majesty should witness such proceedings.”
[PER] photo-labyrinth of emotions
Jan. 26th, 2005 09:28 pm
"The survivors of the Lodz ghetto held the magnifying glass close to the photographs and fixed their eyes on each enlarged image, searching for a familiar face, a recognizable building, a known street."I am trying to find someone I know," said Esther Brunstein, 76, a native of Lodz, Poland who lived in the notorious ghetto as a young teenager from 1940 to 1944, before she and her mother were transported to Auschwitz. Of more than 200,000 who lived in the Lodz ghetto, only 5 percent survived. "Here, look, someone is selling something on a scale, perhaps a little medicine, a little food." "But I won't look at many more," she said, as her magnifying glass rested on the face of a beaming toddler in a makeshift crib. "You see, when I see the face of a child like this, and then you know he did not survive."
Arrayed before the survivors, at their request, was the ( largest collection of photographs of ghetto life during the Holocaust )
Contact sheet of photographs by Henryk Ross at the National Portrait Gallery in London
