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ANU - Museum of the Jewish People Photo Collections

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

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The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

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The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il

The photographic collections of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People include works of professional photographers who were commissioned by ANU to document vanishing communities, as well as photographs collected from private family albums. These collections offer both a public and general view of Jewish life and the intimate view of Jewish families and their stories.

The Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Collection

In 2005, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) acquired the astounding photo archive of Leni and Hebert Sonnenfeld, pioneering photojournalists considered among the world’s most important Jewish photojournalists of the 20th century. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in recognition of the importance of this collection so that it would be preserved in an institution dedicated to the documentation of Jewish life. The collection consists of over 250,000 negatives, slides, transparencies and prints. Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld left photographs that are a living memory to historical events in the history of the Jewish people since the 1930s and throughout the 20th century, both tragic and happy. Leni Sonnenfeld continued to take photographs until just before she died at the age of 96.

Leni Sonnenfeld’s photographs have been published in leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Life Magazine, Esquire, The Daily News, The Jewish Week and Hadassah Magazine, as well as in many other publications and exhibitions around the world. Her photographs were purchased by several museums, among them the Museum of New York, Jewish Museum in Berlin, The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, and the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.

“Aliyat HaNoar” from Berlin to Marseille, on the way to Eretz Israel, 1934. Photographer: Herbert Sonnenfeld.

 

The Diana Mara Henry Collection

Diana Mara Henry began her career in photojournalism at Radcliffe, as photoeditor of the Harvard Crimson from 1967 to 1969. She received Harvard’s Ferguson History Prize in 1967 and her Harvard B.A. in Government in 1969. From her first job at NBC News, she has specialized in interpreting social issues and cultural events. Her photography for private literary, social and fashion clients in New York City has been widely published. The collection was given to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2018.

Diana Mara Henry Collection ©

Last mile of First National Women’s Conference, 1977. right to left: Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

Carrying the torch that was run from Seneca Falls to Houston enters the convention hall for the First National Women’s Conference in Houston, Texas. Left to right, front row: Susan B. Anthony (great grand niece of the first suffragist of the same name), Bella Abzug, Sylvia Ortiz, Peggy Kokernot, Michelle Cearcy, Betty Friedan. Courtesy of © Diana Mara Henry Collection

 

The Elias Harrus Collection

In 2005, Just before Rosh Hashana of 5766, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot) received a special gift for the New Year: Mr. Elias Harrus of Casablanca, Morocco, generously announced the donation of his photographic collection on the Jews of the Atlas Mountains in 1940-1960 to the Bernard Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Mr. Harrus, formerly the Alliance Israelite’s director in Morocco, took these unique photos while working with the Jewish communities in rural Morocco. In 1999 to 2001 a selection from this collection was exhibited at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, which also firstly published it in its catalogue “Jews Among the Berbers: Photographs by Elias Harrus” (1999, co-published with the Museum of Jewish Art and History, Paris).

The Harrus photographic collection is unique in being the only existing comprehensive visual documentation of Jewish life in rural Morocco during the late 1940s to the late 1950s – a crucial decade, in which Morocco gained independence and subsequently all its rural Jews immigrated to Israel. By the mid-1960s all the communities documented in Harrus’ photographs practically vanished.

This collection is, therefore, one of the gem stones among the collections of The Bernard and Miriam Oster Visual Documentation Center.

Young Jewish woman in traditional attire. Tinghir, Todgha Valley, 1958. Photo: Elias Harrus, Morocco. The Oster Visual Documentation Center, ANU – Museum of the Jewish People

 

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz Collection

The Zeev Aleksandrowicz collection is comprised of fifty photographs of unique artistic merit, depicting Jewish life in Cracow, Poland, from 1920 to 1930, taken by Wilhelm-Zeev Aleksandrowicz prior to his immigration to Israel. This unique collection was donated to the archive in 1985.

Jewish woman beggar. Cracow, Poland 1920’s.

 

The Vilkaviskis Community Collection

The Vilkaviskis Community collection consists of some 500 photographs recording the Jewish community of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, collected on the initiative of Israel Sperling of the Vilkavskis landmanschaften and donated to the archive in 1985-1986.

Purim Party at the Hebrew Gymnasium Vilkaviskis, Lithuania 1932.

 

The Than Wyenn Collection

The Than Wyenn collection contains about 3,500 slides photographed by the famous actor Mr. Than Wyenn, documenting synagogues, streets and other manifestation of Jewish life and culture. Mr. Wyenn donated his collection to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2005.

Collection of German Photographers from World War I

This collection of German photographers from World War I (1914-1918) is a very important and unique collection documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe during World War I, photographed by German soldiers. The collection includes hundreds of photographs copied in 1985-6 from the originals owned by individuals and institutions in Poland.

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg Collection

The Dr. Paul Arnsberg collection contains some 1,400 photographs and negatives dealing with the history of the Jews in Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany, the result of comprehensive research conducted by Dr. Arnsberg on this subject.

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection

The Dr. Theodore Cohen Collection consists of approximately 200 color slides of New York synagogues. The photos were taken by Dr. Cohen in 1984 as a gift to the archive.

The Grunstein-Shamir Collection

The Grunstein-Shamir collection is a highly significant photo-documentation collection of work that was done by photographers who were sent to Poland by ANU – Museum of the Jewish People, and financed by the Grunstein-Shamir Fund for the Documentation of the Jewish Remnant in Poland Today. These photographs constitute a major addition to the archive in two vital fields:

1. Gravestones and cemeteries in Poland, Documented by Zusia Efron in 1981, 1983 and in 1984 in 600 slides and 4,000 contact prints.
2. The life of the last Jews living in Galicia – their houses and streets, synagogues, cemeteries and gravestones – recorded in 300 slides taken by Koby Weizner in 1983.

 

The Kadushin Collection

Kadushin, Zvi (George Kadisch) born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (died September 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania (along with indigenous Lithuanian collaborators) he successfully photographed various scenes of life and its difficulties in the ghetto in clandestine circumstances. Kadish constructed cameras by which he could photograph through the buttonhole of his coat or over a window sill. He was able to photograph sensitive scenes that would attract the ire of Nazis or collaborators, such as scenes of people gathered for forced labor, burning of the ghetto, and deportations.

In 1982, Kadushin donated a considerable part of his collection to the Oster Visual Documentation Center at ANU – Museum of the Jewish People (then Beit Hatfutsot), including about 2,000 negatives he photographed in the Kaunas ghetto between the years 1942–1944 and about 1,000 photographs from the Landsberg DP camp, 1945–1946.

The Octav Moscuna Collection

The Octav Moscuna collection contains approximately 2,000 color slides of Jewish synagogues and monuments, including Holocaust monuments, in various countries taken by

Mr. Moscuna during his travels. The collection was donated to ANU – Museum of the Jewish People in 2001.

The Zuskin Collection

The Zuskin collection comprises over 250 photographs of the Moscow Yiddish State Theater (GOSET), taken between 1917 and 1949. This wonderful collection was donated to the Photo Archive by Mrs. Ala Perlman-Zuskin, daughter of actor Benjamin Zuskin.

The WIZO-Argentine Collection

The WIZO-Argentine collection consists of approximately 390 photographs and documents dating from the beginning of Jewish agricultural settlement in Argentina. The collection was donated by WIZO-Argentine in 1982.

 

Contact us:

simonab@anumuseum.org.il