There is a new set of Free to Use and Reuse photographs in the Library of Congress, the work of Bernard Gotfryd.  For many years Gotfryd was a Newsweek staff photographer and his photography is rich with images for students learning about 20th Century pop-culture and political history.

From the blog:

"Gotfryd was a Holocaust survivor. The Germans overran his Polish hometown of Radom days after World War II started. Late in life, he wrote and spoke eloquently about the horrors of those years, touching thousands of listeners and readers. His 1990 book of autobiographical sketches, “Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Tales of the Holocaust,” was written after Newsweek assigned him to photograph fellow Holocaust survivors at a White House ceremony, then sent him back to Poland for the first time since the war to cover a trip by Pope John Paul II, a fellow Pole, to their home country.

”It was a very emotional time, and the memories flooded my mind more than ever,” he told The New York Times in a 1990 article, ”And I remembered my mother, the day she was being deported to the death camp, begging me to stay alive so that one day I could tell the world what the Nazis were doing. When I returned from Poland, I knew that day had come.”

Students can learn about Gotfryd, his photography contributions and his impact starting with this blog post.

Miep Gies and husband Jan Gies, Austrians who hid Anne Frank from Nazis - Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer

Additional photographs of Bernard Gotfryd are also posted in our Network here:

• Group -The Arts and Primary sources: Portraiture of the 20th Century 
• Group -TPS Tech Talk: Meme making with 20th Century Portraits & Quotes
• Group -United States History: 20th Century Pop-Culture and Politics 

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