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Louis Goldman was born in Germany to Polish parents and raised in Paris. He was eighteen in 1943 when the family fled over the Alps into Italy. Captured in a Nazi S.S. raid in Florence, Louis and his brother, Harry, boldly escaped. Their father, Pinkus, was deported to Auschwitz. Florence’s cardinal and his priests hid the brothers in an orphanage. Their mother Mina was hidden in a convent for the duration of the war. Louis entrusted me with his manuscript and the haunting images, which only the future photographer could have committed to memory, each a metaphor for an innate Italian humanity and the divine disobedience of his protectors.
Frankfurt, Germany
Louis Goldman