Lives Remembered:
Photographs of a Small Town In Poland 1897-1939

March 9 – June 5, 2005

Kaye Marvins was a photographer in Houston. He started life as Moyshe Kaplan in the small town of Szczuczyn in northeastern Poland. His father, Zalman Kaplan, was the photographer in the town beginning in the mid-1890s. For the next half-century, Zalman Kaplan and then his son took pictures of the market and the meetings, of the synagogues and the churches, of the countryside and the “beach,” but most of all, of the people. The photographs of the residents of Szczuczyn often passed to relatives who now live in America, Canada, Australia, Israel, and Mexico. For the last decade, Michael Marvins, the son of Kaye, has been reassembling this body of work. The images give a glimpse of a vibrant culture in the years before the Holocaust, striking for their normalcy as much as they are a testament of tragedy.

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