Images of Berlin from the 1920s and ’30s captured by photographer Roman Vishniac are on display for the first time at the city’s Jewish Museum. Vishniac is famous for his photographs of lost Jewish communities of Eastern Europe taken from 1935-38, but his photos of Berlin remained unknown until his death in 1990 at age 93, when they were found in a drawer. His daughter, Mara Vishniac Kohn, came to the Jewish Museum in Berlin in late November to inaugurate an exhibit of 90 images including street scenes, Berlin characters, family, friends and Jewish institutions. The exhibit runs through Feb. 5.
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