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West German Chancellor Willy Brandt Kneels in Front of the Jewish Heroes Monument Paying Tribute to Jews Killed by the Nazis during the 1943 Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, December 7, 1970
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German Chancellor Willie Brandt went down on his knees at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on a trip to Poland. He was there to sign the Treaty of Warsaw, a key element of his “Ostpolitik,”…

Contributor:

Photographer Unknown

Places:

Warsaw, Polish People’s Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Photography, Portrait, Politics, Memorial, Memory

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of a man in a long coat kneeling in front of a memorial wreath on a pedestal as crowd watches and photographers take photos.
Teacher and Students in a Heder, Lublin
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This photograph of a heder, a traditional Jewish boys’ elementary school, has become an iconic photograph of pre-World War II Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The heder was often a one-room classroom…

Contributor:

Alter-Sholem Kacyzne

Places:

Lublin, Poland

Date:

1920–1929

Subjects:

Photography, Education, Children

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Photography
Photograph of young boys sitting at a long table with books open as teacher leans over them to teach.