CAMERA OBSCURA
Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish Photographs
A Shrouded History Exposed
THE ELEPHANT IN THE DARKROOM
Produced with assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, the EVZ Foundation and the German Federal Ministry of Finance, The Elephant in the Darkroom is a unique provenance research project whose primary purpose is to investigate and make publicly available all surviving information concerning the systematic expropriation and wholesale destruction of Lithuania’s rich and diverse pre-Second World War Jewish photographic cultural heritage during the German occupation of Lithuania between June 22, 1941 and January 28, 1945.