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General News - 2nd prize

July 26, 1963

A father grieves over his daughter after an earthquake hit the town of Skopje in Yugoslavia on 26 July 1963, which killed over 1,000 people and destroyed or seriously damaged 80 percent of the city's buildings.

July 01, 1963

Victims of an earthquake which hit the town of Skopje in Yugoslavia on 26 July 1963, killing over 1,000 people and destroying or seriously damaging 80 percent of the city's buildings.

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Jovan Ritopecki

1963 Photo Contest - General News - 2nd prize
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Jovan Ritopecki

01 July, 1963

Victims of an earthquake which hit the town of Skopje in Yugoslavia on 26 July 1963, killing over 1,000 people and destroying or seriously damaging 80 percent of the city's buildings.

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Jovan Ritopecki

Serbian photographer Jovan Ritopecki was the official photographer of the partisans in Yugoslavia during the Second World War. After the war, he became a photojournalist for the ...

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