{"id":8799,"date":"2020-02-09T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T15:58:15","slug":"8799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/09\/8799\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieselotte Jakob"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jakob12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"8800\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8800\" class=\"wp-image-8800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jakob12a.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jakob12a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.paulepictures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jakob12a-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIt was the most saddening experience of my life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  -Lieselotte Jakob  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 13th, 1945 the baroque city of Dresden, Germany was  firebombed into cinder by the British Royal Air Force and the United  States Army Air Force. The attack was divided into three bombing raids  dropping over 4,500 tons of high explosives, including incendiary bombs,  onto the city known as \u201cFlorence on the Elbe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lieselotte Jakob, 24, and her family survived the bombardment by  sheltering in their cellar.  A bomb detonated directly in their street  and the explosion ripped through the neighborhood.  The cellar housing  Lieselotte and her family was the only one to contain survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After fleeing the cellar, the family headed towards the hospital in the  direction of the Elbe River.  They attempted to get into another shelter  but no one would open their doors to allow them to get safety from the  bombs and fire so they walked towards City Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The family \nwalked along the river and saw corpses leaning against walls.  Their \nlungs had collapsed.  They arrived at the hospital to find it full of \nchaos and disorder.  Lieselotte suffered from smoke inhalation.  She \ncouldn\u2019t speak for 4 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the bombings she lived with her  grandparents in Dresden.  One of her relatives was a solider assigned  to cremating bodies in the town square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon afterwards,  Lieselotte made her way towards her parent\u2019s farm, situated to the east  of Dresden.  The journey was long and arduous, but the area was lost to  the Red Army, forcing Lieselotte to turn back towards the city.  They  walked back to Dresden by following in the tracks of other fleeing  refugees.  Along the way they were twice shot at by planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  portrait is a part of my From Above project which featured portraits of  atomic bomb and firebombing survivors from WWII. My limited edition book  is available at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.photoeye.com%2Fbookstore%2Fcitation.cfm%3Fcatalog%3DI1040%26i%26i2%26fbclid%3DIwAR0v8NJBwpynsV0FxfmMw7W_RDz-1sESEiT5YTfI3afYiJnIa7FTDtsh_W4&amp;h=AT1xBUg0rl0vpyaLOGgfqTll2SxnBP0TJc9rItC_yRUzX2ljpXHR2trzSCwy9tMmsswzt2KKGDme2n0rohFUGr9i5oE_fkvMXRhbRge2d3ssCj1bNrk6OgIDc97LTWNWfiRNkxiamCRbbZ0zfebD0e8wWWqa\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.photoeye.com\/bookstore\/citation.cfm\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A selection of From Above portraits, including portraits of firebombing  survivors from Coventry and Rotterdam, will be exhibited in the Dresden  Neustadt during May.  Further information will be released closer to  the opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was the most saddening experience of my life.\u201d -Lieselotte Jakob On February 13th, 1945 the baroque city of Dresden, Germany was firebombed into cinder by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. 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