Camera Obscura

קאַמעראַ אָבסקוראַ

INVESTIGATE │ CELEBRATE │ DOCUMENT

Camera Obscura is a cultural history project that celebrates pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs through the eyes of the mostly forgotten Jewish women and men who made them, that investigates their theft and near-total destruction during Nazi Germany’s occupation of Lithuania between June 22, 19411 and January 28, 1945, and that documents the present-day locations and—wherever possible—the previous life stories of the few photographs that survived the war. Camera Obscura is funded with grateful assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the German Federal Ministry of Finance, the EVZ Foundation, the Jewish Historical Society of England and a wide range of other kind-hearted and generous people around the world. The project is ongoing, and is far from complete. If you’d like to make a contribution towards its continued development, don’t hesitate to contact us for more information.  

1 March 22, 1939, if you include the Klaipėda Region/Memel Territory.