George Kadish’s ‘Modest but Important Beginning’ Exhibiting the Holocaust to Survivors Through Photographs, 1945–1946

George Kadish (Hirsch Zvi Kadushin) is best known as the intrepid, clandestine photographer of Kovno ghetto. But he was also curator one first Holocaust exhibitions mounted by a Jewish survivor for survivors. Even before Israel Kaplan’s November 1945 call to ‘collect and record,’ already working zamler (collector), salvaging gathering thousands photographs from diverse sources in order assemble an archive Nazi persecution suffering. From this collection, selected 300 traveling exhibition entitled ‘Pictures Ghetto’ that shown Landsberg Feldafing DP camps being showcased at Congress She’erit Hapleitah, organized Central Committee Liberated Jews American-occupied zone Germany, on January 27, 1946. Grouping photos thematically, rather than chronologically or geographically, collated them onto large, portable black panels captioned with descriptive titles Yiddish. This article analyzes discursive framing Kadish’s exhibition, its semiotics, reception ‘material speech’ addressed ‘family survivors’ presenting perspective through ‘bonding images.’ Whereas antifascist immediate postwar period marginalized victimization, brutality while fostering community suffering