Tag: Vishniac

Vishniac is a documentary about Roman Vishniac, a photographer best remembered for capturing Jewish life before the Holocaust. A camera can be a magical thing. But for one photographer, he captured images that would have otherwise been lost to history if not for immigrating to America. Nearly 90 years later, these photos are just about all that remain from communities wiped out in Hitler’s systemic genocide of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. His work…