Born:

July 17, 1915, New York

Died:

November 11, 1985, New Rochelle, NY

Arthur Rothstein was a first-generation American born in New York and grew up in a Yiddish-speaking, Orthodox home. His family members were forced from their homes in Europe by government-sanctioned antisemitic pogroms.

Rothstein was drawn to stories about migrants and the disenfranchised. He visited the Hongkew community in 1946 as the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)'s chief photographer in China.

Mentioned in

• Free and Unfree in a Faraway Place: German-speaking Refugees in China’s Foreign Concessions and the Shanghai Ghetto (Meredith Oyen)