World Press Photo of the Year: 1956 |
Helmuth Pirath, Germany, Keystone Press.West Germany, 1956
German World War II prisoner released by the Soviet Union is reunited with his daughter.
About the image
Capturing the homecoming of a German prisoner of war, returning from the Russian camps, to the fold of his family and fatherland, Pirath focused on the emotion-riddled face of a child, aged about twelve, who had not seen her father since she was a one-year-old.
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