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 Copy Share Image
I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
A man with a camera was always suspected of being a spy. Moreover, the Jews did not want to be photographed, due to a… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
The purpose of photography is the transmission of a visualized sector of life through the medium of the camera into a mental process that… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist. — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
The Jews of the shtetls that Tolstoy remembered were saints... the people I photographed were saints. So now, in 1983, I tell the world:… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And the more… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Can you call a farm with a dozen geese a farm? Still, it was a little better for the Jews in Czechoslovakia. There were… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
