Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits Of Jews In Wartime Amsterdam By Annemie Wolff

Annemie Wolff, also known as Annemie Wolff-Koller (1906 Laufen, Germany – 2 February 1994 Amsterdam), was a German-Dutch photographer. Her 1943 photos of Jewish and non-Jewish children and adults, taken in Amsterdam, were rediscovered in 2008 by Dutch photo historian Simon Kool. About 3000 photos were taken of 440 persons, and about 300 of the subjects have been identified by now. About half of the photos’ Jewish subjects perished in the Nazi concentration camps, while the others survived World War II.

Lost Stories, Found Images tells many remarkable stories: of the courageous and talented photographer Annemie Wolff; of each person whose 1943 portrait is in the exhibit; and of the discovery of the identity of these people 70 years later.

Lost Stories, Found Images: Portraits of Jews in Wartime Amsterdam by Annemie Wolff, is on loan from, a project of, and an original exhibit created by the Wolff Foundation, Amsterdam, in partnership with the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Foundation (“JCF”).