In 1987 Mary Ellen Mark spent 10 days with a family who were living in their car in Los Angeles during their fifth week of homelessness. The car—a 1971 Buick Skylark missing its hood and several windows—shuttled the Damms between welfare agencies, schools, motels, and shelters. The car was central to their daily routine, and a dependable fixture that helped hold the family together.

In my colourised photograph, parents Linda and Dean, and Linda's children Crissy and Jesse, huddle together in front of the bags that hold everything they own.

The publicity from the LIFE article proved a boon for the Damms, but this story does not end well. Despite receiving $9,000 in donations after being featured in LIFE magazine, they quickly returned to homelessness due to drug use.

In 1995, LIFE returned and found the family, now grown by 2, faced ongoing struggles with child services due to neglect and poor living conditions. Linda received $950 monthly from welfare and $239 in food stamps, but money is quickly depleted. The children were often placed in foster care and repeatedly lacked proper schooling and basic necessities.

As Linda's drug addiction worsened, her relationship with Dean became more abusive; he was arrested twice for domestic abuse, her once for stabbing him with a pen knife. Social services attempted to help through a Family Preservation program rather than foster care, but eventually Linda was able to leave with the children, but only after Crissy revealed Dean's sexual abuse.

The children were placed in separate foster homes where they receive proper care and medical attention. Linda lives in a shelter; and while she was hoping to eventually reunite with her children, the record showed she missed her first two visits with her children.

Irmgard Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen.She was a volunteer member of the SS.

Grese was convicted of crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of Jewish prisoners committed at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and sentenced to death at the Belsen trial. Executed at 22 years of age, Grese was the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century. Auschwitz inmates nicknamed her the "Hyena of Auschwitz", and she has been described by survivors as “the paragon of evil.”