Roman Vishniac: Quotes about the world

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“My friends assured me that Hitler’s talk was sheer bombast,” Vishniac said in 1955. “But I replied that he would not hesitate to exterminate those people when he got around to it. And who was there to defend them? I knew I could be of little help, but I decided that, as a Jew, it was my duty to my ancestors, who grew up among the very people who were being threatened, to preserve — in pictures, at least — a world that might soon cease to exist.”

Roman Vishniac
People , World , Help

“Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist.”

Roman Vishniac

Testament to a Lost People

World

“The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints… the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world: When you learn about Goethe, don't forget to study the Holocaust, too.”

Roman Vishniac

Testament to a Lost People

People , World , Study , Learning