A village near Rshev/Russia. A child was killed during the fightings. The women carry the dead kid in an open coffin to the grave. The boy on the left hauls the coffin lid, the girl behind him -in Russian-orthodox tradition- carries the icon.

The bereaved vol. 2

The innocent bereaved of war: russian woman with grandchild, photo taken by a german soldier in 1941.

The bereaved

In front to Roman ruins an aged Italian countrywoman and a child, perhaps her little granddaughter, puts a floral wreath of roses over the bodies of two American soldiers which has paid the supreme sacrifice to Rome’s liberation. A simple mercy’s act by a lower class’s woman which perhaps in this moment remember her son, a soldier. Fifth Army, Rome area, Italy, end of May 1944. Likely this young soldiers killed for the Rome’s liberation are two of 7,861 American soldier which rest in the Nettuno’s Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial. Victor Sierra