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At the Jewish Museum and the Photographers’ Gallery

Daniel Trilling, 22 February 2019

“... 24 February; there’s still time, just, to go this weekend if you can – revisits the work of Roman Vishniac, best known for recording the lives of Eastern European Jews in the years immediately before the Second World War.Born in Russia, displaced first to Berlin in 1920 and then New York in the 1940s, ...”

Four pfennige per track km

Thomas Laqueur: Adolf Eichmann and Holocaust photography, 4 November 2004

Eichmann: His Life and Crimes 
by David Cesarani.
Heinemann, 458 pp., £20, August 2004, 0 434 01056 1Show More
Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence 
by Janina Struk.
Tauris, 251 pp., £15.95, December 2003, 1 86064 546 1Show More
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“... Struk shows, make reference to the elegiac images of poor Jews taken by the Jewish photographer Roman Vishniac in the late 1930s to document what he took to be a dying shtetl culture. Indeed, his prewar pictures fit so nicely into the image of suffering Jewry that they were used during the war as pictures of the Holocaust and as models for German ...”

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