Primo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor and writer. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947, published as Survival in Auschwitz in the United States), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution named the best science book ever written. (Wikipedia)
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler was a German painter of the avant-garde whose works were banned as "degenerate art", and in some cases destroyed, by the Third Reich. She was murdered in a former psychiatric institution at Sonnenstein castle in Pirna under Action T4, a forced euthanasia program of Nazi Germany. (Wikipedia)
Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration, March 1941. (Shorpy)
Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies leave the Old Bailey after the first day of Stephen Ward’s trial in 1963. It was through Ward, an osteopath, that Keeler was introduced to Profumo. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection - CORB
Die tote Klasse (The dead class) 1975. Installation, wooden floor, bench, tables, puppets, clothes, by Tadeusz Kantor. 150 x 150 x 300cm. 2007 acquired by PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. Photo: Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Sibylle Forster.