Synagogue, Pitt Street

Walter Rosenblum

1938

Photograph of building entrance with rose-shaped window and Hebrew inscription seen from above.
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Walter Rosenblum

1919–2006
Photographer Walter Rosenblum was born in New York City, the child of East European immigrants. In 1937 he joined the Photo League, a group of socially concerned documentary photographers. During World War II, he served as a combat photographer with the U.S. Army Signal Corps and photographed the D-Day landings on the Normandy beaches in June 1944. He was the first Allied photographer to enter the liberated Dachau concentration camp.

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