Badly damaged photograph of Soviet military officer Abram Shapiro installed after World War II by his relatives on the ground of the Soviet War Memorial at the Central Cemetery in Brno, Czech Republic. Unterleutnant Abram Shapiro was born in 1911, served in the Red Army during World War II and died of wounds at age about 34 on April 25, 1945, after the battle for the village of Sokolnice near Brno in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia in the very last days of World War II.
Badly damaged photograph of Soviet military officer Abram Shapiro installed after World War II by his relatives on the ground of the Soviet War Memorial at the Central Cemetery in Brno, Czech Republic. Unterleutnant Abram Shapiro was born in 1911, served in the Red Army during World War II and died of wounds at age about 34 on April 25, 1945, after the battle for the village of Sokolnice near Brno in South Moravia, Czechoslovakia in the very last days of World War II. Soviet soldiers and military officers who died in the very last days of World War II were buried far away from their homes and some of their graves look abandoned and unvisited now. Their photographs are gradually destroyed by time and there are no sources to replace them by the new ones.
Size: 5607px × 3738px
Photo credit: © Vladimir Pomortzeff / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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