CAMERA OBSCURA
Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish Photographs
A Pictorial History Exposed
Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish Photographs
A Pictorial History Exposed
WHY THE PROJECT EXISTS
In September 2013, I accidentally stumbled upon a collection of family photographs that had been smuggled out of the Kovno Ghetto 70 years earlier by Annushka Varšavskienė (that's her in the striped bathing costume above ↑), a Lithuanian Jewish musician and childcare worker whose extraordinary and unprecedented act of preservation shortly before she was murdered by the Nazis in 1944 is the principal—and possibly the only—reason why the Camera Obscura project exists.
Richard Schofield
Founding Editor
Camera Obscura
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