Way back in April of this year, I was contacted by Ina Lorenz from Wallstein-Verlag: a publishing company based in Gottingen, Germany. Ina was interested in using one of my Bergen-Belsen images as a cover for one of their upcoming releases. Well actually, it is an image of a remodelled sculpture of a Grieving Woman at the Soviet Prisoners of War Cemetery, Hörsten, Germany, which lies adjacent to the Bergen-Belsen site.
Ukrainian sculptor Mykola Mukhin created the “Grieving Woman” relief sculpture for the monument, which was dedicated in November 1945. Unknown vandals destroyed the original in 1980. It has been reassembled and is on display inside the New Documents House at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial site. The work written by Silke Petry und Rolf Keller is entitled: 'Ruhet in Frieden, teure Genossen. Der Friedhof de Kriegsgefangenenlagers Bergen-Belsen - Geschichte und Erinnerungskultur.' www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835319226-silke-petry-und-rolf-keller-ruhet-in-frieden-teure-genossen.html The book is now published and I am very grateful to Ina for using my photograph on the cover and kindly providing me with a copy of the book. I recall that I shot the photograph on a Hasselblad H3D and the mixed light coming through the trees was a challenge. I was cursing the fact that I'd left my tripod in the boot of the car which was parked at least a forty minute walk away, so I went ahead and shot it handheld.
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