Elkort 's photographs ( c. 1951 ) of recently liberated Jewish immigrants learning new work skills at the Bramson ORT ( Organization for Rehabilitation and Training ) School in Brooklyn offer a rare and intimate glimpse into of their optimistic struggle to integrate into a new society after World War II . Some of his pictures show Jewish workers bearing tattoos evidencing their incarceration in Nazi concentration camps during The Holocaust . In 1951 , more than 20,000 Jews received vocational training at the Bramson ORT School . Seamstresses , tailors , pattern makers , pressers ; here they learned a trade that was much needed in New York ’s growing fashion and garment district . In 2008 , Elkort donated 33 of his vintage ORT photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington , D.C.
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Martin Elkort