Aberfan

A collection of powerful images by the photographer I. C. Rapoport in the weeks following the disaster.

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A local man holds up an edition of 'Life' Magazine bearing the headline "Sea of Sludge upon Green Aberfan" following the Aberfan disaster, October 1966

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A child looks up at the place where Pantglas Primary School, once stood, before it was destroyed by the falling tips

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A child sits next to bags of coal from Merthyr Vale Colliery in Aberfan in the weeks following the disaster

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A miner stares out of the window of the Macintosh Pub at the schoolhouse destroyed by the disaster in Aberfan

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A mother and father visit the grave of their child three weeks after the Aberfan disaster, 1966

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A young girl stands at the end of Moy Road, Aberfan, where the schoolhouse stood before it was engulfed by the coal tips, 1966

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A survivor of the Aberfan disaster, 1966

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David, a survivor of the Aberfan disaster, pulled from rubble which engulfed Pantglas Primary School

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David, a survivor of the Aberfan disaster, on his father's farm, staring up at the coal tips

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David Davies, survivor of the Aberfan Disaster, 1966

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The young sister of a child killed in the Aberfan Disaster, 1966

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Cheryl, a survivor whose brother was killed in the Aberfan Disaster, October, 1966

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A milkman on his round in Aberfan, the devastation of the school and houses in the background

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The gravedigger at Aberfan Cemetery, 1966

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Beneath the looming coal tips a mother visits her child's grave, Aberfan, 1966

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A survivor of the Aberfan Disaster visits the cemetery in the weeks following the tragedy

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A man who lost everything in the Aberfan Disaster is comforted by a friend in the nearby Macintosh Pub

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Miners returning to the surface after a shift, only weeks after the disaster at Aberfan, 1966

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A miner at the end of his shift in Aberfan, 1966

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A young miner from Aberfan, his eyes blackened by coal dust

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Three men survey the fallen tip at Aberfan, 1966

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A local man describes the size of some of the chunks of rubble which engulfed the school at Aberfan, 1966

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A mother visits her child's grave at Aberfan while another mother holds her children tightly to her

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Four schoolgirls at the grave of one of those killed in the Aberfan Disaster, 1966

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Three boys look down at the Aberfan Cemetery in the weeks following the disaster which killed so many of their classmates

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A mother waits on the doorstep for the return of her son from school as she has done every day since the tragedy in Aberfan

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Above the cemetery and the village of Aberfan, a boy lies down and covers his head in grief

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A child rides a horse with the village of Aberfan in the background in the weeks after the disaster, 1966

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Three mothers walk back to the village of Aberfan after visiting the graves of their children, killed when the coal tip engulfed Pantglas School in October 1966

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A man who lost his wife, his child and his home in the Aberfan Disaster

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The first bride in Aberfan after the disaster, 1966

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Young couples at the Macintosh Pub, Aberfan in the weeks following the disaster which killed 144 people

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Laughter returns to Aberfan. As painful as it is, life must go on.

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Survivors of the disaster at Aberfan which killed 144 people, including 116 schoolchildren on the 21 October, 1966

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The first baby born in Aberfan after the disaster which claimed 144 lives in October 1966

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The tips above Aberfan, after the disaster, October 1966

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Aberfan, showing the collapsed tip and the town beneath, October 1966

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Draining the tip above Aberfan after the disaster, 1966

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Digging one of the drainage ditches to stabilise the tip above Aberfan, after the disaster, 1966

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Draining the face of the tip, Aberfan, after the disaster, 1966

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Letter to the Aberfan Disaster Fund, 1966

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