About

Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs provide a unique and irreplaceable record of a civilisation that no longer exists. Not unlike the people that once made and owned them, the vast majority of these always fascinating and often revealing images were either completely destroyed or otherwise displaced during the three years of incomprehensible savagery that followed Nazi Germany's invasion of Lithuania on June 22, 1941. The Data Brigade is an officially registered nonprofit organisation based in Lithuania that’s dedicated to locating, documenting and preserving everything that somehow managed to survive the devastation. The organisation is a direct descendant of the former International Centre for Litvak Photography.