International Holocaust Remembrance Day 
LEST WE FORGET

KL Mauthausen, Upper Austria

On 27 January 1945, Ausschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.

In 2005 the 27 January was designated by the United Nations General Assembly as the "International Holocaust Remembrance Day". 

The International Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is thus a day on which we must reassert our commitment to human rights. [...]

We must also go beyond remembrance, and make sure that new generations know this history. We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world. And we must do our utmost so that all peoples may enjoy the protection and rights for which the United Nations stands.

Message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon 

Meanwhile in Russia
RANDOM PORTRAIT #2

At the Red Square. January 21, 2015. 

STILL MARCHING...

91 years ago, on January 21, 1924, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, died. His ideas formed the largest part of the 20th century. And also his "Utopia" failed at the end in 1991 there are still many people who believe in this ideas. Today, on the anniversary of his death, there was (again, like in former Sowjet times) a long queue in front of his mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square.

Still marching...

The flag of the USSR at the Kremlin Wall. 2015.

The queue on Red Square. The sign is saying "Children of War"...

Entering the Mausoleum

Moscow, Red Square, January 21, 2105

AD ASTRA II

Space Oddity

Yuri Gagarin Monument, Moscow

Monument to the Conquest of Space, Moscow

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much "she knows"

Ground Control to Major Tom

Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you "Here Am I floating round a tin can

Far above the Moon

Planet Earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do.

[David Bowie, Space Oddity]

AD ASTRA

Moscow

Fujifilm X-T1; XF 35mm F1.4R; ISO 400; f 5,6; 1/350

Meanwhile in Russia
THE LAUGHING GOAT

Some of the picts I did for the guy with the goats...

Выбираю Жизнь

Спасибо Крису - сделали мне #артистический сайт (ссылка). Выкладывать пока особо нечего, положила свои любимые картины, наброски времен студенчества и мою любимую #фото серию (первую, но не последнюю) о #жизни и смерти. В серии фотографии с #Тихого океана, ##Карабаша, и... #Подмосковья - жизнь есть жизнь и торопится нам некуда - вечная спутница согласна подождать...