A Photographer Captures Jewish Life Before and After the Holocaust NYT | Top Stories By: Steven Erlanger 16 October 2025 at 09:51 Edward Serotta created an archive of 1,230 in-depth interviews with Holocaust survivors about how they lived, both before and after. “Every one of them comes with a story,” he said. © Marylise Vigneau for The New York TimesEdward Serotta has dedicated decades to documenting Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe.