Grief (photograph)

Grief is a World War II photograph of international fame made by Soviet photographer Dmitry Baltermants in the area of Kerch, Crimea on 2 January 1942. The photograph depicts the site of a massacre of civilians by the Germans: grief-stricken people wander across a field, searching for relatives among the corpses lying in the muddy snow. The history of the photo is detailed in the 2020 book by David Shneer Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

The photo was first published at an exhibition prepared by Italian photographer Caio Mario Garrubba [it] in 1960s. Garrubba found the photo in the archives of Baltermants and modified it with the clouds from another photo. In the Soviet Union the photo was published only in 1975.^[3]