Figure 1.-- This is Julien Bryan comforting, Kazimiera Mika, a disdraught Polish girl whose older sister has just been murdered by a Luftwaffe pilot. His photogrph of the carnage is one of the iconic images of World War II taken just days into the War. This was not an examole of 'colatreral damage'. It was an attck on Polish farmers hrvesting pottoes away from urban centersnd militry targets. The Luftwaffe pilot knew precisely who he was attacking and why. The Germans would come to rue the day they unleashed the Luftwaffe on civilians. Click on the image to se the photo.

Julien Hequembourg Bryan was born Titusville, Pennsylvania (1899). He wa a noted American photographer, filmmaker, and documentarian. Bryan was raised in a devout Presbyterian family with a long missionary. After graduating high school (1917), he volunteered with American Field Service for the French Army durung World War I. He drive an ambulance in Verdun and the Argonne, two major battles. When h returne hime he wrote a book describing his experiences--Ambulance 464which he illustrated with his own photographs. He later took photographs documenting daily life in Poland, the Soviet Union, and NAZI Germany (1935-39). Heo captured the everyday life, work, and culture of individuals and communities. He was on a train to Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland (Septenber 1, 1939). He was able to get out of Warsaw leave during a brief truce allowing citizens of neutral countries to escape. This geant through NAZI Germany. He managed to hide his films in the chemical container of a gas mask. His photographs taken nin a besieged Warsaw documented the the truth about the German invasion. He produced a documentary film ('Siege') depicting Poland's defense of their capital against the NAZI onslaught. He profuced this icomic photograph of the War showing Kazimiera nd her slain older sister (figure 1). We archived several of his photographs in our CIH webite before we knew who the photorapher was. After the War, Bryan returned to Poland (1946). He was part of an official UNRRA delegation. His Kodachrome footage of a destroyed Gdańsk was some of the first post-war film of the city. Bryn retirned in and published one hundred of his 1939 Wasaw photographs (1958). As part of a project with the daily newspaper Express Wieczorny they tried to idntify the people in the photographs. It was here he and Kazimiera weere reunited.

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