Roman Vishniac

 Children waiting outside the registration office of a transit bureau, 

Schlachtensee Displaced Persons' Camp, Zehlendorf, Berlin, 1947

  

 Jewish refugees from Germany leaving France for Palestine 

on board the S.S. Providence, Marseille Harbor, 1947

  

 Refugees crowding outside the registration office of a transit bureau, 

Schlachtensee Displaced Persons' Camp, Zehlendorf, Berlin, 1947

  

 The streets are free of brown battalions! Berlin, 1947

  

 Woman walking dogs along the ruins of the Romanisches Haus, Berlin, 1947

  

Woman walking past a demolished shoe store with a sign that reads "We take care of your feet!" Berlin, 1947

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 Burlesque dancer entertaining servicemen and other patrons while balancing 

a glass on her head, Leon & Eddie's, 52nd Street, New York, 1945

  

 Mourners carrying a Chinese American Navy sailor's coffin 

during a funeral procession, Chinatown, New York, 1943-44

  

 Nazi Storm Troopers, ca. 1935

  

 People behind bars, Berlin Zoo, early 1930s

  

 Sisters Marion, Renate, and Karen Gumprecht, refugees assisted by the 

National Refugee Service (NRS) and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), 

shortly after their arrival in the United States, Central Park, New York, 1941

  

 Sisters wearing klederdracht (traditional costumes), Marken, The Netherlands, 1939

  

 Street scene with swastika flag in background

  

 Untitled [Beach dwellers in the afternoon, Nice, France] c. 1939

  

 Women walking with a baby carriage, Berlin, 1935-36

  

Zionist youth dancing the Cherkessia, a genre of dance from the Caucasus Mountains 

adopted by Jewish pioneers and brought to Palestine, 1939

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 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s

  

 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s

  

Children playing on a street lined with swastika flags, probably outskirts of Berlin, mid-1930s

  

 During the Summer Olympic Games, Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, 1936

  

 Factory worker cutting and grinding glass, Hoffman MF & Co., New York, 1942-44

  

 German family walking between taxicabs in front of the 

Ufa-Palast movie theater, Berlin, late 1920s-early 1930s

  

 Girls

  

 Jewish refugee from Europe arriving on a children's transport under 

 the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 

a Quaker organization, City College of New York, West Harlem, 1941

  

 Lublin Ghetto in Poland

  

Recalcitrance, Berlin, 1926

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 A Town Square, Kazimierz, Cracow, Poland, 1936

  

 Basement home of a porter and his family, Warsaw, 1935-38

  

 Boy with kindling in basement dwelling, Krochmalna Street, Warsaw

  

 Children bathing, 1938

  

 Father earned today some money and daughter is sent for milk, 1937

  

 Father taking his son to the first day of cheder (Jewish elementary school), Mukacevo, 1937-38

  

 Girl in plaid dress, Mukacevo, ca. 1935-38

  

 Grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, 1930s

  

 Inside the Jewish Quarter, Bratislava, 1935-38

  

 Jewish refugees in horse stables that have been converted to living quarters, 

Polish detention camp in Zbaszyn, Poland, 1938

  

 Student of the Talmud, Trnava, Czechoslovakia, 1937

  

 The market in the main square in Lask, 1937

  

Jewish youth, Mukacevo, 1935-38

Roman Vishniac

Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) was a Russian Jewish photographer who documented the life of Eastern European Jewry before it was swept away by the Holocaust. This is a set of untitled photos from that time.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has a Vishniac Archive.