Robert Montgomery

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Not a Petting Zoo

Polish artist Marta Klonowska continues her unique sculptural technique of using thousands of shards of glass to form colorful animals.

 

NemO’S x David De La Mano. Uruguay.

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Tattoo You

Korea-based artist Zihee Tattoo adorns the skin with colorful illustrations that pay homage to nature and fine art.

 

All we ever wanted was everything

Gerhard Human 

Blue Monday

Katrien de Blauwer

 

Plan B, itsPeteski

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Long Commute

Photograph by Hamish Mitchell.

 

Road trip up the California coast in a 1967 Impala convertible.

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The Alchemical Ingredients of Skyrim: Poster Series

Syd Weiler

 

A Boy and a Bear on a Very Big Adventure

Brandon James Scott

 

A crow, on the lookout for something to draw.

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Cartoon from The New Yorker

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Meet the Polish-Jewish Ballerina Who Shot Nazis on Her Way to the Gas Chamber

(Illustration by Władysław Siwek) 

On October 23, 1943, a transport of around 1700 Polish Jews with foreign passports were transported out of the Special Camp at the Bergen-Belsen Exchange camp in Germany; they arrived on passenger trains at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, although they had been told that they were being taken to a transfer camp called Bergau near Dresden, from where they would continue on to Switzerland to be exchanged for German POWs.
 One of the passengers was Franceska Mann, a beautiful dancer who was a performer at the Melody Palace nightclub in Warsaw. She had probably obtained her foreign passport from the Hotel Polski on the Aryan side of the Warsaw Ghetto. In July 1943, the Germans arrested the 600 Jewish inhabitants of the hotel and some of them were sent to Bergen-Belsen as exchange Jews. Others were sent to Vittel in France to await transfer to South America.
According to Jerzy Tabau, a prisoner who later escaped from Birkenau and wrote a report on the incident, the new arrivals were not registered at Birkenau. Instead, they were told that they had to be disinfected before crossing the border into Switzerland. They were taken into an undressing room next to one of the gas chambers and ordered to undress. The beautiful Franceska caught the attention of SS Sergeant Major Josef Schillinger, who stared at her and ordered her to undress completely. Suddenly Franceska threw her shoe into Schillinger's face, and as he opened his gun holster, Franceska grabbed his pistol and fired two shots, wounding him in the stomach.
Then she fired a third shot which wounded another SS Sergeant named Emmerich. Schillinger died on the way to the hospital. According to Tabau, whose report, called “The Polish Major's Report,” was entered into the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal as Document L-022, the shots served as a signal for the other women to attack the SS men; one SS man had his nose torn off, and another was scalped, according to Tabau's report which was quoted by Martin Gilbert in his book entitled The Holocaust: A History of the Jews During the Second World War.
Reinforcements were summoned and the camp commander, Rudolf Höss, came with other SS men carrying machine guns and grenades. According to another report, called “Jewish Resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe” written by Ainsztein and quoted by Martin Gilbert, the women were then removed one by one, taken outside and shot to death. However, Eberhard Kolb wrote in his book about the history of Bergen-Belsen that they were all murdered in the gas chamber.
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Ted McDonnell, Welcome to Malabon

In the poorest slum areas around Manila, children as young as three spend their days sitting in soot and breathing in coal dust and toxic smoke as they help their families eke out a living making charcoal out of wood scavenged from rubbish dumps and construction sites.
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Antoine Bruy, Urs, Les Pyrénées, 2012

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Hello June!

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Love Story

Ella Frances Sanders

 

Balance

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber

 

“We Are All Humans After All” by Ludo in Paris

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The Big Dry

New works by Australian-born artist and muralist Fintan Magee. 

Watercolor paintings of famous cities by Maja Wrońska

Maja Wrońska's new set of watercolors depicts the skyline of famous American cities like New York and San Francisco.

 

City Sunset

Photograph By Raymond Choo, National Geographic Your Shot.