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Photography and resistance: securing the evidence in Nazi-occupied Europe
Nick Wright talks to photographer and author JANINA STRUK

IN Nazi-occupied Europe the act of taking a photograph was to risk life itself.

Photography and Resistance: Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe begins with two striking images taken from inside a building in Drohobycz, then part of Poland and today Drohobych in Ukraine. They show the execution of five civilians by a Nazi firing squad.

The first image shows individuals being led to the execution site by armed German soldiers, the second shows a firing squad pointing their weapons at the wall directly below where the photographer was standing. Adam Paszulka, a local resident, took the clandestine pictures from his kitchen window.  

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