"I was in no doubt that
they could
have easily chopped off
my head."

When Janina Findeisen looked out of her window at night, the sky was often lit up – with the light from bombs exploding in the Syrian war.

In 2015, journalist Janina Findeisen traveled to Syria to report on a terror group. She was taken hostage and gave birth to her son in captivity.

Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, № 12 / 2019
Photo Editor: Jakob Feigl
Author: Frederik Obermaier und Bastian Obermayer