Untitled—Three Men and a Horse in the Shtetl

Evening in the City of London was one of several charcoal drawings that David Bomberg made during World War II when he was a firewatcher in London. The city was regularly bombed by the Germans and…

Though this photograph of Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski with the body of a soldier killed during the Allied assault on Omaha Beach has gone down in history as a photograph of D-Day, it was…

Jules Lellouche painted the interior of this synagogue in Djerba during World War II, when Tunisia was ruled by Vichy France. Though Tunisia’s Jewish community escaped mass deportations and murder in…

Felix Lembersky’s three Babi Yar paintings were among the first artistic representations of the Nazi massacre in Kyiv, when, over the course of two days in September 1941, over 33,000 Jews were…

After surviving the war, Miklós Adler returned to his hometown of Debrecen and created sixteen woodcuts, signing them Ben Binyamin (“son of Benjamin”) in honor of his father. In this woodcut…

Alfred Eisenstaedt shot one of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century in Times Square, where crowds were gathering to watch the electric news ticker for an anticipated announcement by U…