Warsaw, September 13, 1939 — two girls are rummaging for potatoes as German warplanes approach and open fire, killing one. As her 12-year-old sister bends over her body, an American photographer captures the moment.
A ten-year-old Polish girl named Kazimiera Mika, mourns the death of her older sister, who was killed in a field in Warsaw during a German air raid.
"There was a wooden house over there. As the planes approached, Andzia ran in," Kazimiera "Kazia" Mika told Eugeniusz Starky, director of the film Correspondent Bryan, in 2010.
On that day, September 13, 1939, German bombs fell on the house. Andzia Kostewicz and the others inside fled. Despite the danger, they tried to grab potatoes from the field as they ran away. They were hungrier than they were scared.
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