Most of the images that currently appear on the website are from a collection of 43 photographs that once belonged to a Lithuanian Jewish family who vanished from history after they were forced into the Kovno Ghetto in August 1941. Found in an attic in Kaunas in 2016, the photographs were later given to the International Centre for Litvak Photography, whose subsequent research led to the discovery of their original owners, although finding any surviving relatives hasn’t been so successful. To view all of the images, and to find out more about the family, click here.
If you have any information that may lead to the return of the photographs to their rightful heirs, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
The Data Brigade
Pre-Second World War Lithuanian Jewish photographs provide a unique and irreplaceable record of a civilisation that no longer exists. The Data Brigade is a nonprofit organisation based in Lithuania dedicated to preserving and raising awareness of these rare and magical images by engaging with a wide diversity of individuals and organisations around the world. Eighty years after the last German soldiers left Lithuania in January 1945, the organisation is currently throwing all of its time and energy into one single project.