Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 1942
Year: 2020

In January 1942, seven months after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Soviet press photographers descended into the region around Kerch, in Crimea, to document the Red Army’s counter offensive against the Wehrmacht. On 31 December, the city was liberated from Nazi occupation, offering one of the first scenes of the Nazi war against European Jewry. In March 1942, Ogonyok ran a photo essay about Kerch with images by Dmitri Baltermants. The most visually dominant photograph, on the left side