Jewish Life in Germany
Photographs by Erich Hartman


In the spring of 1993 we went to stay in Germany for a month or more. Erich wanted to photograph aspects of Jewish life in Germany in those changing times after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Berlin Wall and the Reunification of Germany. We rented an apartment in Munich, overlooking the English Garden.

Erich was born in Munich, the first child of a prosperous, middle-class couple from Passau on the Danube where he spent a happy early childhood. After 1933, by which time he...