Sophie Tarnowska Moss

Countess Zofia Roza Maria Jadwiga Elzbieta Katarzyna Aniela Tarnowska

Polish countess and former wife of W. Stanley Moss, British SOE operative and writer. Both briefly lived in the famous Tara villa in Cairo during the Second World War, which was also inhabited by a colourful mix of SOE personnel including the legendary Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Sophie Tarnowska Moss

Gloucester Road Tube

Overcast morning outside Gloucester Road Station.
December 2019

Islington, N1

Alwyne Road
Canonbury, London
December 2019

Parczew Partisans

Members of the Parczew partisans, a Jewish partisan unit based out of the forests in Eastern Poland, pose for a group photo. The unit was led by Yehiel Grynszpan. Circa 1943 - 1944.

Courtesy of Samuel Gruber. USHMM.

Hundoara, Transylvania

Castelul Corvinilor din Hunedoara

December, 2012

Marian Lucian. Wikicommons.

Leaving Tokyo