Cynthia Elbaum

Cynthia Elbaum

Cynthia Elbaum

Cynthia Elbaum (March 19, 1966 – December 22, 1994) was an American photojournalist, killed in Chechnya.

Cynthia Elbaum, who grew up in Ashfield, Massachusetts, graduated from Smith College with a major in Russian studies. She travelled frequently to the former Soviet Union, working as a freelance photojournalist.

On assignment for Time magazine during the start of the first war in Chechnya, Cynthia was photographing in the streets of Grozny, the capital of the breakaway republic, when she was killed in a Russian bombing raid. She is the first journalist known to have been killed in that war.

External links

• An homage to Cynthia on freedomforum.org
• Article about journalists killed in Russia

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Name	Elbaum, Cynthia
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Date of birth	March 19, 1966
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Date of death	December 22, 1994
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