Slide Show: Yevgeny Khaldei Photographs Second World War : The New Yorker

Slide Show: Yevgeny Khaldei Photographs Second World War : The New Yorker:

The Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei worked for the Tass news agency between 1935 and 1948, and for Pravda from 1959 to 1976. As Michael Specter wrote in Photo Booth last year, Khaldei “photographed every Soviet leader from Stalin to Yeltsin, and he documented the plight of Shostakovich as he struggled through the Siege of Leningrad. Khaldei, a Jew, (purged twice) photographed other Jews as they were liberated from the ghetto of Budapest. Then he ripped the yellow Stars of David from their chests. His picture of Hermann Göring gives form to the idea of evil.”

 Soviet soldiers storm the shore while attacking Sevastopol on April 1,
1944. On May 12th, the Soviets defeated the remaining German troops in
Crimea.