Ah, yes, another #heartwarming tale of a #child struggling in post-war #Europe. ๐Ÿ“ทโœจ Because nothing screams 'uplifting content' like a #story about a traumatized 7-year-old who couldn't even handle the basics of home architecture on a blackboard. ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿšซ Clearly, the future of #real #estate #design was never in her hands.
https://www.gailweiner.com/post/the-girl-who-couldn-t-draw-home #postwar #trauma #uplifting #content #HackerNews #ngated
The Girl Who Couldn't Draw Home

I was scrolling through my feed when a photograph stopped me cold.A young girl, maybe seven or eight, standing in front of a blackboard. Warsaw, 1948. The photographer was David "Chim" Seymour, sent by UNICEF to document the aftermath of war on Europe's children. The girl's name was Tereska. She was in a school for disturbed and war-traumatised children, and someone had asked her to draw "home."What she drew wasn't a house.No door. No windows. No chimney with a little curl of smoke. Not the kind

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Todd Webb, a Photographer Who Once Walked From New York to San Francisco, Has Archive Preserved

He also tauught Georgia O'Keeffe photography.

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This is what Toronto looked like during World War II
Toronto was a very different-looking city during World War II, a bustling manufacturing and transit point in the North American industrial powerhouse that contributed immense manpower and equipment toward the defeat of the Axis powers.A visual trip back to war-era Toronto reveals a burgeoning metropolis on the precipice of a substantial post-war population and bui...
https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/05/what-toronto-looked-during-world-war-2/

Greetings from Syria, where a postwar olive harvest offers a long-lost taste of home

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-118663/syria-olive-harvest-homs

#WorldNews #Syria #Postwar

๐ŸŽฌ Uranus (1990)

Subtitles available:
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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง English
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โฌ‡๏ธ Download https://app.box.com/s/90zachh6fk2ajpji377z3ac09pcrg422

๐ŸŽž IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100851/

โ–ถ๏ธ Watch the video here ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://hydracker.com/titles/64386/uranus

#Uranus #Drama #FrenchCinema #ClaudeBerri #PostWar #Reconstruction #Society #History #Cinema

๐ŸŽฌ Les dรฉmons de l'aube [Demons of Dawn] (1946)

Subtitles available:
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๐ŸŽž IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034690/

โ–ถ๏ธ Watch the video here ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://m.ok.ru/video/7991528589893

#Lesdemonsofaube #drama #war #crime #cinema #YvesAllegret #resistance #postwar #France

โ€œIt's interesting how many aspects of modern political commentary hold up the 1945-1971 #postwar period as the natural state of things that was broken by our weird new #modernity, when instead maybe it's more accurate to see this period as profoundly unusual.โ€ open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Top Links 1074 The last prewar...
Top Links 1074 The last prewar tankers reach their destinations. Our euro, your solution? Who are the Dems? Everday life as "scanty residue".

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

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โ€˜Sopping!โ€™

Artist: Gil Elvgren (1948)

#GilElvgren #1940s #cartoon #comicbook #art #pinup #comic #style #ink #pencil #drawing #postwar

Moments before the assassination of Japanese Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma (1960)

https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/1856653/moments-before-the-assassination-of-japanese-socialist-party-leader-inejiro-asanuma-196

๐ŸŽฌ La Pointe Courte [La Pointe-Courte] (1955)

Subtitles available:
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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ท Greek
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spanish๐Ÿ”„

โฌ‡๏ธ Download https://app.box.com/s/aac6y4h51wzltk0g8r0t7gadqlzuwy5c

๐ŸŽž IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048499/

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https://darkiworld2026.com/titles/63627/la-pointe-courte

#LaPointeCourte #AgnรจsVarda #Drama #FrenchCinema #IndependentCinema #PostWar