Talk:Paul Senn

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• ... that Swiss photojournalist Paul Senn helped expose abuse at a boys' home, leading to its closure and the conviction of its last director?

• Source: :Statement: Paul Senn and journalist Peter Surava documented inhumane conditions at a boys’ home; the reporting led to its closure and the conviction of its last director.

Source verification: “[…] als der Journalist Peter Surava und der Fotograf Paul Senn Jugendliche des Erziehungsheimes Sonnenberg bei Kriens porträtierten und dabei unmenschliche Lebensbedingungen feststellten.”

Translation: “[…] when journalist Peter Surava and photographer Paul Senn portrayed young people at the Sonnenberg boys’ home near Kriens and discovered inhumane living conditions.”

Source: Wolfgang Hafner, “Abuse in institutions: The educational approach (II)”, Schweizerische Kirchenzeitung

Source verification: “1944 sorgten Artikel des Reporters Peter Surava […] für Aufsehen und zur Schliessung des Erziehungsheimes. Der letzte Leiter von Gabeldingen wurde gerichtlich verurteilt.”

Translation: “In 1944, articles by reporter Peter Surava […] attracted public attention and led to the closure of the boys’ home. The last director of Gabeldingen was convicted by a court.”

Source: https://www.srf.ch/news/erziehungsheim-in-kriens-gedenktafel-zur-erinnerung-an-dunkles-kapitel-enthuellt, “Boys’ home in Kriens: Memorial plaque unveiled for a dark chapter”]

• ALT1: ... that Swiss photojournalist Paul Senn photographed the exhumation of French resistance fighters killed by the Nazis, in images unusually stark for the Swiss press?

• Source: :Statement: Paul Senn photographed the exhumation of French resistance fighters killed by the Nazis, and the resulting images were unusually stark compared with usual Swiss press coverage of wartime atrocities.

Source verification: “1943 organisierte er mit anderen Schweizer Journalisten eine Reise ins befreite Lyon. Dort dokumentierte er beispielsweise die Exhumierung französischer Partisanen, die von Nazis massakriert worden waren. [...]Ihre Brutalität kontrastiert radikal mit der gemässigten Darstellung der Schweizer Presse in der Darstellung der Kriegsgreuel.”

Translation: “In 1943, he organised a journey to liberated Lyon with other Swiss journalists. There he documented, among other things, the exhumation of French resistance fighters who had been massacred by the Nazis. [...] The brutality of the photographs contrasted radically with the more restrained depiction of wartime atrocities in the Swiss press.”

Source: SWI swissinfo, “Paul Senn, the icon of Swiss photojournalism”

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5x expanded by HerBauhaus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

HerBauhaus · talk 13:59, 5 August 2026 (UTC).

• Fine article that rescued an unsourced stub. Lots of good refs, it's neutral, new and long enough and it's interesting. Both hooks check out. The images are more than 70 years older than his death. You could have included one. (A crop of the Coney island flag group could be the basis of an alt about his colour photography.) However it's good to go. Well done. Victuallers (talk) 09:46, 7 August 2026 (UTC)