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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 Meissen, 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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