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[Vishniac's father Solomon sitting on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France]

Date 1939 (printed 2012)
Location Nice France
Dimensions Image: 7 x 10 1/2 in. (17.8 x 26.7 cm)
Print medium Photo-Digital-Inkjet


In 1939, when Vishniac photographed his parents in Nice, 300,000 of the 43 million people living in France were Jews. Two-thirds of the Jewish population lived in Paris, many of whom had emigrated from countries across Europe in an effort to escape antisemitism. In 1940, after France fell to the invading Germans, the country was divided into a northern and western zone, directly occupied by the Nazis, and a southern zone controlled by the puppet Vichy government. Many Jews left Paris, in the northern zone, seeking tenuous refuge in the south, where Vishniac began living in hiding in early 1941.

Copyright

© Mara Vishniac Kohn

Credit line

International Center of Photography

Feedback Accession No. 2012.80.48