A Vanished World 1984 British First Edition One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Elie Wiesel

A VANISHED WORLD 1985 BRITISH FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER BOOK. IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
 
FIRST BRITISH EDITION BY ALLEN LANE 1983 SECOND PRINTING 1984.
HARDCOVER. 180 PAGES.
 
ROMAN VISHNIAC (ILLUSTRATOR). ROMAN VISHNIAC (1897 - 1990) WAS A RUSSIAN-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, BEST KNOWN FOR CAPTURING ON FILM THE CULTURE OF JEWS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST.
FOREWORD BY ELIE WIESEL ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS!
 
COMMENTARY ON PHOTOS, ILLUSTRATED WITH UNIQUE FULL-PAGE GLOSSY B&W PHOTOS OF JEWISH GHETTO LIFE TAKEN BY ROMAN IN THE 1930'S BEFORE EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY WAS DESTROYED BY THE NAZIS.
 
HARDCOVER. CONDITION: FINE. DUST JACKET CONDITION: FINE.
 
Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.
 
SIZE AND CONDITION:
30CM HIGH 30CM WIDE
 
CONDITION: GOOD CONDITION 
 
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