Camera Obscura
קאַמעראַ אָבסקוראַ
INVESTIGATE │ CELEBRATE │ DOCUMENT
Camera Obscura is a cultural history and provenance research1 project that celebrates the beauty and the diversity of pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs through the eyes of the hundreds of 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, 19412 and January 28, 1945, and that documents the present-day locations and—wherever possible—the previous biographies of the smattering of photographs that survived the war. Camera Obscura is funded with 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 financial contribution towards its continued development, please don’t hesitate to contact me (↓) for more information.
Richard Schofield
Founding Editor
Camera Obscura
1 Read more here.
2 March 22, 1939, if you include the Klaipėda Region/Memel Territory.