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These men are selling old clothes. The notice on the wall reads “Come Celebrate Chanukah,” Kazimierz, Krakow
Dateca. 1935-38
Label Text
The old-clothes peddlers expected to find few buyers for their pitiful wares, but staying home alone was unbearable. Here was a semblance of togetherness, a bit of hope.
Vishniac, Roman, A Vanished World / Roman Vishniac; with a foreword by Elie Wiesel, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983, plate 156.
Inscribed
"Jewish Cracow" written in pencil on verso
"ICP 2912" written on verso
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
Other: 7 1/2 x 9 in. (19.1 x 22.9 cm)
Other: 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (26 x 29.2 cm)
Location
place taken Krakow, Poland
Accession Number1983.1847
Copyright
© Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography
For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.
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