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cameras.The Leica was wrapped around with a handkerchief and the film exposed
as I wiped my brow.The Rollei was kept under my coat with the lens protruding though an enlarged button hole.
For the portfolio I have chosen a cross-section of the many pictures that I took, 16,000 in all. Every time, for
every situation, just one picture, never more. I did not have the film, the money for the film, or the place to buy
the film. I therefore had to limit myself to only one picture. From these pictures only 2000 negatives survived,
so it was hard to make the decision as to which would represent the whole story of the ‘vanished world.’ But it
is a cross-section, showing old and young, everybody working in spite of all the difficulties, in spite of all the
persecutions and limitations and the boycott.”
“The Only Flowers of HerYouth,Warsaw,” 1938 * “Entrance to the Ghetto, Cracow,” 1938 * “One of the People of
the Book,Warsaw,”1938 *“The Face ofWisdom,Cracow,”1936 *“PeddlersTransformed into Beggars by the Boycott,”
1938 * “Grandfather and Granddaughter, Lublin,” 1937 * “At the Open Fire, Carpathian Ruthenia,” 1938 *
“Jewish Peasant, Carpatho-Ukraine,” 1937 * “Heder, Slonim, Russia,” 1938 * “Three Student School, Carpathian
Ruthenia,” 1938 * “One RoomApartment-Workshop,Warsaw,” 1936 * “Synagogue Court,Vilna,” 1938.