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    [Postcard from Roman Vishniac in Warsaw to his daughter Mara in Riga]

    Unidentified Photographer

    Object Name
    Vitrine:03.04 Vitrine:03.05 9 (facsimile verso)
    Date1938
    Label Text

    Vishniac sent this postcard to this daughter Mara after visiting Zbaszyn, a Polish border town where thousands of Jews were living in horrific conditions, following the expulsion of Polish Jews from Germany: “I just came back from an area where a lot of Jews had it really bad...There are many unhappy Jews, and among them even girls your age....You, my darling, have to thank God for the help he is granting to us provisionally and always be kind and nice, and appreciate this fortune so he will always grant his help.”

    Medium
    Gelatin silver print postcard
    Dimensions
    Image (paper): 5 9/16 x 3 15/16 in. (14.1 x 10 cm)
    Location
    place depicted Warsaw, Poland place sent Riga, Latvia
    Credit Line
    Collection Mara Vishniac Kohn
    Accession Numbermvk.e.195.2011
    Copyright
    © Mara Vishniac Kohn, courtesy International Center of Photography

    For all uses of photographs by Roman Vishniac contact ICP at: vishniac_archive@icp.org.