Willi Jacobson: Berlin, 1946

Willi Jacobson was an Associated Press senior staff photographer based in prewar Berlin, but was dismissed from his position in 1935 after the agency accepted the Editors Law, which excluded Germans with Jewish ancestry from the photojournalism profession. However, Louis P. Lochner, the AP’s Berlin bureau chief, considered Jacobson an “ace photographer” and had him reassigned to the AP’s bureau in Vienna. He was subsequently arrested by the Gestapo, but ultimately survived the war. After World War II, Jacobson worked for JDC, photographing JDC’s aid activities in Berlin in 1946.