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Sara Galbiati
Freelance

"The Circus Kids of Kabul"

Second Place
Oded Balilty
Associated Press

"Vets"

Third Place
Hossein Fatemi
Panos Pictures

"Veiled Truths"

Award of Excellence
Robin Hammond
Freelance

"I AM LAGOS"

Second Place
Oded Balilty
Associated Press


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"Vets"

About 500,000 Soviet Jews served in the Red Army during World War Two, and the majority of those still alive today live in Israel.In this photo made Thursday, April 11, 2013, Soviet Jewish World War Two veteran Boris Ginsburg poses for a portrait at his house in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Ginsburg, born in Belorussia, was kept by a German garrison in the Lenin ghetto since 1941 until its destruction by partisan units in September 1942. In 1942 he joined the partisans for two years and in 1944 he joined the Red Army as a combat soldier and fought till the and of the war. Ginsubrg demobilized in 1947 and immigrated to Israel in 2001.


 

 

 

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