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| akg-images now represents the
private photographic archive of Abraham Pisarek (1901-1983), a wholly
unique and moving record of Jewish life in the early 20th Century.
Born in Poland in 1901, Pisarek emigrated to Germany in 1919 and
trained as a press photographer until the Nazi government blacklisted
all Jews from employment in 1933. Although all cameras were confiscated
from German Jews on 19 June 1942, Pisarek still managed to continue
to record Jewish life in Berlin, and his post-war photographs chronicle
the rebuilding of a culture and society the Nazis tried - but ultimately
failed - to destroy. akg-images is proud to represent the work of
Abraham Pisarek for editorial use.
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| The picture of Pisarek above (akg1-P685-B1925)
shows the photographer as a pioneer in Palestine in 1925, where
he remained until 1927. All photographs on this page are ©
Bildarchiv Pisarek / akg-images |
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Various religious objects on show in the Sephardic
synagogue in Berlin's Tiergarten, circa 1930
akg2-R30-J1-1930-8 |
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A boy unrolls the Torah scrolls in the Auerbach
oprhanage in Berlin, 1935
akg2-R30-J1-1935-11 |
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A man reads from the Book of Esther during
the feast of Purim, 1930s
akg2-R30-J1-1935-21 |
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A table decorated for Purim, circa 1930
akg2-R30-J1-1930-10 |
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Children dress up as candles on a menorah for
Hanukkah, 1935
akg2-R30-J1-1935-32 |
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A fancy-dress procession in Berlin for Purim,
circa 1938/9
akg2-R30-J1-1938-18 |
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A Jewish wedding in Berlin, 1930s. The bridal
pair are under the chuppah, the sacred canopy under which they will
be married
akg2-G76-J1-1934-1 |
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A lecture is given at a yeshiva in Lublin,
Poland, 1934
akg2-R30-J1-1934-11 |
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A yeshiva in Eastern Europe, teaching young
men the Talmud, 1930s
akg2-R30-J1-1930-11 |
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A sign in German saying 'Jews are not wanted
here', 1933.
akg2-P75-J1-1933-2 |
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Eugenic examinations are carried out on a Jewish
child, 1936
akg2-P75-R2-1936-1 |
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A synagogue in Eberswalde, Germany, burns on
Kristallnacht, 1938
akg9-1938-11-9-A1-17 |
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Eastern European Jews are rounded up and deported,
circa 1942/3
akg-P75-J1-1942-8 |
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A desecrated Jewish cemetery in Hamburg, circa
1938
akg2-P75-J1-1938-19 |
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A school class in the Lodz ghetto in Poland,
circa 1943
akg9PO-1941-9-0-A2 |
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Threatening anti-Semitic graffiti on a synagogue
in Berlin-Kreuzberg, circa 1935
akg2-P75-J1-1935-8 |
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The confiscation and collection of all radios
owned by Jews, 1939
akg2-P75-J1-1939-4 |
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A Jewish mother reads a letter from her children,
who have emigrated to escape persecution, 1936 or 1938
akg2-P75-J1-1936-13 |
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Teenagers leave Berlin on their way to a new
life in Palestine, 2 September 1936
akg9IS-1936-0-0-A2-3 |
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Passengers arrive in Tel Aviv, 1930s
akg9IS-1935-0-0-A2-20 |
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A Jewish man on board the 'Bremen'
akg9IS-1938-0-0-A2-1 |
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A meeting of Jewish immigrants in Palestine
sing 'Hatikvah', circa 1935
akg9IS-1935-0-0-A2-6 |
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A Jewish settler selling poultry, 1930s
akg9IS-1935-0-0-A2-12 |
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Improving the irrigation in the Keren Hajessod
settlement, Tel Aviv, circa 1938
akg9IS-1938-0-0-A1-2 |
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A Jewish settlement in Israel, 1930s
akg5IS-A0-W3-1935 |
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Signs for German Jewish doctors in Jerusalem,
circa 1935
akg9IS-1935-0-0-A2-36 |
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Jewish settlers working the land, 1930s
akg9IS-1935-0-0-A2-11 |
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The remains of Jewish resistance leader Herbert
Baum are moved to a Berlin cemetery during a memorial for victims
of Fascism, 11 September 1949.
akg1-B8770-F1949 |
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The staff of the Jewish Hospital in Berlin-Wedding
on their way to a memorial for the victims of Fascism, 14 September
1949
akg2-G75-J1-1946-25 |
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So-called 'rubble women' clearing the streets
of Berlin, July 1945
akg8-1945-7-0-A1-2 |
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Children in a United Nations camp for displaced
persons in Berlin-Tempelhof, September 1946
akg2-G75-J1-1946-7 |
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Jews who had fled to Shanghai during the Nazi
period return to Berlin, August 1947
akg2-G75-J1-1947-2 |
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US rabbi Steven Samuel Schwarzschild at the
consecration of a new prayer room in Berlin-Charlottenburg, April
1950
akg2-G75-J1-1950 |
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Children in a Jewish kindergarten in Berlin
celebrate Purim once more with costumes and make-up
akg2-R30-J1-1950-2 |
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Children in the streets of Dresden, 1945
akg2-M150-A2-1945-2 |
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A display of books which had been banned by
the Nazis, Berlin 1947. The sign states that these books meant 'concentration
camps and death' for their readers.
akg8-1947-5-0-O1 |
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