Ve Day Scenes - Una scena di strada. Tre donne, sullo sfondo dell'immagine, guardano verso la macchina fotografica, due di loro sono appoggiate sulla recinzione del giardino, davanti a una casa. Il bunting e le bandiere delle nazioni alleate sono appese tra gli edifici. Dall'alto di un albero alle spalle della telecamera. L'immagine mostra una folta folla di persone, riunite fuori le porte di Buckingham Palace, l'8 maggio 1945 - ve-Day. La fotografia è stata scattata da Walter Lassally, un giovane che era arrivato in Gran Bretagna, come rifugiato sei anni prima. Anni dopo, Walter spiegò che da bambino, crescendo a Berlino, lui
1818 x 2748 px | 15,4 x 23,3 cm | 6,1 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
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VE Day Scenes - A street scene. Three women, in the background of the image are looking towards the camera - two of the women are leaning on the garden fence, at the front of a house. Bunting and flags of the Allied nations are strung between the buildings. From up a tree to behind the camera.The image shows a dense crowd of people, gathered outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, on the 8th May, 1945 - VE-Day. The photograph was taken by Walter Lassally, a young man who had arrived in Britain, as a refugee six years earlier. Years later, Walter explained that as a child, growing up Berlin, he was told of a parade that a vast crowd had assembled to watch. Walter asked a man to assist him in climbing a tree, to obtain a good vantage point. At the head of the parade was Adolf Hitler. As Walter observed, at that young age he had no hint the peril his family would be placed in.Walter's father Artur, was a noted maker of industrial training films, but was forbidden to practice his profession by the Nazi Berufsverbot. The Nazi racial classification termed Artur Lassally as "Non-Aryan", because of his Jewish ancestry. In 1938, Artur Lassally was arrested and placed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp - concomitant with the Nazi regime's policy of cajoling those which it had categorised as undesirable within the Third Reich, into emigration.Walter's mother Adele, purchased an entry visa from the Peruvian Embassy and also obtained transit visas for Britain, to facilitate their travel. The Lassally family arrived in Britain at the end of June 1939. Walter recounted in an interview that the family's belongings had been packed into containers, which were awaiting shipment from the dockside in Bremerhaven. This image was taken by Walter Lassally on 8th May 1945, VE-Day, Lassally, Walter
