As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace.
VIENNA, Austria — Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died in September 2005, at a monument to victims of the Holocaust erected on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters, 1975.
On Dec. 31, 1946, U.S. President Harry S. Truman formally declared the end of World War II. The photographs in this book survey the era during and following the war — the people and places affected by this extraordinary event.