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Roman Vishniac Gallery Walk
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Roman Vishniac Gallery Walk
The images in this gallery are taken by Roman Vishniac during the Holocaust and are used for a Gallery Walk teaching strategy.
![Several Jewish schoolchildren jostle each other. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/16_Vishniac_boys_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=P2nIBILF)
![Several Jewish schoolchildren jostle each other. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/16_Vishniac_boys_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=P2nIBILF)
![A young girl sitting up in bed with stenciled flowers on the wall behind her. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/15_Vishniac_girl_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=EJ_EMa93)
![A young girl sitting up in bed with stenciled flowers on the wall behind her. Taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/15_Vishniac_girl_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=EJ_EMa93)
![An elderly man with a long white beard, wearing a black hat and a long black coat walks down a street carrying a sack.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/13_Vishniac_old_man_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=z6ikapBP)
![An elderly man with a long white beard, wearing a black hat and a long black coat walks down a street carrying a sack.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/13_Vishniac_old_man_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=z6ikapBP)
![A woman wearing a scarf on her head leans out of a window. Photo taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/14_Vishniac_woman_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=nFFgVBkJ)
![A woman wearing a scarf on her head leans out of a window. Photo taken circa 1935-1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/14_Vishniac_woman_GALLERY_2_Medium_res.jpg?itok=nFFgVBkJ)
Photograph of Jewish Schoolchildren by Roman Vishniac
Jewish schoolchildren, ca. 1935–1938.Vishniac took this photograph during a visit to a Jewish education center in Mukačevo in southwest Ukraine. Mukačevo, like many other towns in the former Pale of Settlement, had a large Jewish population; in many of these towns, Jews constituted the majority.
Photograph of a Girl by Roman Vishniac
Sara, sitting in bed in a basement dwelling, with stenciled flowers above her head, Warsaw, ca. 1935–1938. One of Vishniac’s best-known photographs, this image was printed on charity tins and circulated throughout France to collect donations. Some of Vishniac’s famous images were staged to evoke sympathy.
Photograph of a Jewish Man by Roman Vishniac
A photograph by Roman Vishniac (1897–1990), ca. 1935–1938. This and similar photographs taken by Vishniac are among the few visual testimonies to the life of Jews in eastern Europe during this period. The vast majority of the millions of Jews who lived in eastern Europe perished during the Holocaust.
Photograph of a Jewish Housewife by Roman Vishniac
A housewife, ca. 1935–1938. Vishniac’s images, while profound and moving, offer only a limited portrayal of the Jewish population in pre-World War II Europe. They helped to shape images of eastern European Jews as poor and traditional.
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