A collection of powerful images by the photographer I. C. Rapoport in the weeks following the disaster.
A local man holds up an edition of 'Life&...
A child looks up at the place where Pantglas...
A child sits next to bags of coal from Merthyr...
A miner stares out of the window of the...
A mother and father visit the grave of their...
A young girl stands at the end of Moy Road,...
A survivor of the Aberfan disaster, 1966
David, a survivor of the Aberfan disaster,...
David, a survivor of the Aberfan disaster, on...
David Davies, survivor of the Aberfan Disaster,...
The young sister of a child killed in the...
Cheryl, a survivor whose brother was killed in...
A milkman on his round in Aberfan, the...
The gravedigger at Aberfan Cemetery, 1966
Beneath the looming coal tips a mother visits...
A survivor of the Aberfan Disaster visits the...
A man who lost everything in the Aberfan...
Miners returning to the surface after a shift,...
A miner at the end of his shift in Aberfan, 1966
A young miner from Aberfan, his eyes blackened...
Three men survey the fallen tip at Aberfan, 1966
A local man describes the size of some of the...
A mother visits her child's grave at...
Four schoolgirls at the grave of one of those...
Three boys look down at the Aberfan Cemetery in...
A mother waits on the doorstep for the return...
Above the cemetery and the village of Aberfan,...
A child rides a horse with the village of...
Three mothers walk back to the village of...
A man who lost his wife, his child and his home...
The first bride in Aberfan after the disaster,...
Young couples at the Macintosh Pub, Aberfan in...
Laughter returns to Aberfan. As painful as it...
Survivors of the disaster at Aberfan which...
The first baby born in Aberfan after the...
The tips above Aberfan, after the disaster,...
Aberfan, showing the collapsed tip and the town...
Draining the tip above Aberfan after the...
Digging one of the drainage ditches to...
Draining the face of the tip, Aberfan, after...
Letter to the Aberfan Disaster Fund, 1966
