Portraits Of Dresden Firebombing Survivors

DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 10: Helga Skoczowsky, 79, who survived the February 13, 1945 firebombing by Allied planes of the city of Dresden, poses with a spoon that is the only item she has left from the raids on February 10, 2015 in Dresden, Germany."My favourite spoon," she says. "I eat with no other." ("Mein Lieblinsloeffel, ich esse mit keinen Anderen.") Helga was nine when the attacks occurred and took shelter with her mother and sister in the cellar of their apartment building, which took a direct hit from a bomb that penetrated down to the first storey. "Everything was gone, everywhere was inferno," ("Alles war weg, ueberall war Inferno,") she says of what she witnessed when she emerged. The city of Dresden will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the February 13, 1945 firebombing attacks by British and American bombers that devastated the city and killed at least 25,000 people. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 10: Helga Skoczowsky, 79, who survived the February 13, 1945 firebombing by Allied planes of the city of Dresden, poses with a spoon that is the only item she has left from the raids on February 10, 2015 in Dresden, Germany."My favourite spoon," she says. "I eat with no other." ("Mein Lieblinsloeffel, ich esse mit keinen Anderen.") Helga was nine when the attacks occurred and took shelter with her mother and sister in the cellar of their apartment building, which took a direct hit from a bomb that penetrated down to the first storey. "Everything was gone, everywhere was inferno," ("Alles war weg, ueberall war Inferno,") she says of what she witnessed when she emerged. The city of Dresden will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the February 13, 1945 firebombing attacks by British and American bombers that devastated the city and killed at least 25,000 people. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Portraits Of Dresden Firebombing Survivors
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