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Photography of young boy sitting next to bed and nightstand.

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Diskin Orphanage, Jerusalem

Tsadok Bassan

1920–1929

Photograph of young boys sitting at a long table with books open as teacher leans over them to teach.

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Teacher and Students in a Heder, Lublin

Alter-Sholem Kacyzne

1920–1929

Photograph of four boys perched on a rock overlooking water and facing away from viewer.

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Great Spruce Head Island

Ellen Auerbach

1940

Painting of emaciated father with beard gazing to his right while his two nude and emaciated young sons stand next to him. Background is dark.

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Father and Sons

Yosl Bergner

1941

Abstract painting of three women drawing, surrounded by flowers, easels, a chair, garments, and other objects.

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Gouache from Leben? Oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater? An Operetta), #4351

Charlotte Salomon

1941–1943

Photograph of women and children in ghetto facing photograph on the far side of a fence, interacting with another child on opposite side of fence with Star of David badge on his back.

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Leave Taking before Deportation

Mendel Grossman

1942

Photograph of children holding hands in a circle and dancing around an alligator statue as a city burns in the background.

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Memories of a Peaceful Time

Emmanuel Evzerichin

1943

Photograph of five young boys standing and sitting in various poses on crumbling foundation of a wall with swastika drawn on it. One boy points a flat wooden stick at another boy, who is giving a metal object to a seated boy.

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Yorkville Swastika

Vivian Cherry

1948

Photograph of little girl standing on rainy sidewalk of a busy city street wearing a coat and a bow facing the viewer, and basket on curb behind her.

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East End, London

1950

Photograph of man in a skullcap kneeling next to a child sitting in a wooden chair on boat deck, gazing into the distance to the left of the viewer.

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Coming to America

Louis Stettner

1951

Photograph of man in a hat and sidelocks bending over a desk where three boys are reading Hebrew.

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Hebrew Lesson, Brooklyn, New York

Cornell Capa

1955

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People from Lachish Going into Exile

ca. 701 BCE