Photograph by Rob Bremner
Photograph © Rob Bremner / BCA. All rights reserved.
Laura Losh, née Paolini, was photographed by Rob Bremner in Everton, Liverpool, in 1987.
Laura Losh was a resistance fighter during the Second World War. One day, she encountered three British soldiers, including one from Anfield, Liverpool, who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp and were freezing and starving in a snow covered field in Italy.
Risking her life, she hid them from Nazi soldiers in an underground storage bunker until the end of the war.
After the war, she married the soldier from Anfield, Harry, and lived out the rest of her life in Liverpool. She died on Remembrance Sunday in 2013, aged 96.
Bremner’s photograph records Laura in later life, while the story behind the image reaches back to wartime Italy and her connection to Liverpool.
