Portraits Of Dresden Firebombing Survivors

DRESDEN, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 10: Anita John, 82, who survived the February 13, 1945 firebombing by Allied planes of the city of Dresden, points to where she lived in a photograph showing her street before the raids on February 10, 2015 in Dresden, Germany. She says that when she and her parents went to the cellar to take shelter during the raids her mother lay over her to protect her, and that only she survived. All 13 others, including her parents, suffocated. Anita says that when she emerged she did not know what had happened, and only realized her parents were dead when she found their bodies among so many others the next day, laid out in the street before the rubble of her former home. The city of Dresden will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the February 13, 1945 firebombing attacks by British and American bombers that devastated the city and killed at least 25,000 people. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)