Clemens Kalischer
Lindau (Germany), 30.03.1921 - Lenox (Massachusetts, USA)
, 09.06.2018
His family fled from Berlin in 1933 and settled in Paris. He was taken prisoner in France in 1939 and survived three years of forced labor in eight different work camps (1939–1942). In the last camp he was reunited his family and escaped to the U.S. with the aid of Varian Fry. From 1944 through 1946 he studied art at the Cooper Union. He was a member of ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals); a member of One by One (an international dialogue group between survivors and perpetrators. His series of photographs of people arriving in New York City from displaced persons camps in post-World War II Europe, taken in 1947 and 1948, was his most recognized work.
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