Boy With Dog, New York, 1950 ("Family of Man")

John Lee Hooker, Stockbridge, MA, 1958

Displaced Persons, New York, 1948

New York, 1949

"I used to go to the harbor whenever a ship arrived... I had arrived the same way six years previously. I saw fear and expectation in the faces of men, women and children... because I had experienced the same thing. I think it was the empathy which enabled me to move amongst the people and photograph them without disturbing them."  - Clemens Kalischer

Born in Lindau, Germany in 1921, Kalischer fled Berlin and Nazi Germany with his family in 1933, taking up residence in Paris. From 1939-1942, he was held in various French concentration camps, as were many Germans, to await his fate. Kalischer managed to escape in 1942 and made his way to Portugal where, with the help of the Emergency Rescue Committee, he gained passage on a ship bound for the United States.

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