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Synagogue, Pitt Street
Walter Rosenblum
1938
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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.
I cannot linger in Egypt. They that came before me tarried too long. I have had the taste on my tongue and the dead air in my nostrils. Enough. That will serve.
Zagazig…
A man over eighty is seated at his desk, looking up at an old picture, one more than fifty years old. His eyes meet with those of a beautiful old woman, a woman who was born a…