Inside a forgotten camera, a time capsule

Inside a forgotten camera, a time capsule

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Article from THE JEWISH FORWARD
By Joel Sucher
October 29, 2020

After my father – a Holocaust survivor — passed away in 1991 I found an old leather valise he had brought with him from Germany.

Inside were hundreds of still photographs he had taken right after liberation with a Leica IIIc. They included scenes around Germany; in particular, Lubeck, where I was born in 1949.

There were also snaps of life in Brooklyn where we all ended up.

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Red Squad

“Red Squad”: An Investigation of the N.Y.P.D.’s Crackdown on Dissent, Fifty Years Ago

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Article from THE NEW YORKER
THE FRONT ROW
By Richard Brody
October 26, 2020

For those who believe that the New York Police Department’s crackdown on dissent and targeting of protesters exercising their constitutional rights is a newborn response to the Black Lives Matter movement or an anti-Muslim aftereffect of the 9/11 attacks, Metrograph is here with a corrective. On its Web site, through its virtual-cinema program, the New York movie theatre will be showing (on Monday night and Tuesday through Thursday, for Metrograph members) the 1972 documentary “Red Squad,” which reveals the extraordinary and brazen surveillance of protests against the Vietnam War—and the aggressive, intrusive targeting of individual protesters by the N.Y.P.D. in the early nineteen-seventies.

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