While my brother and I waited for our time slot to go up the Washington Monument, we visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

I knew it was going to be upseting. It's one of the most depressing places on the planet. At a certain point I just had to get out of there because I was almost overcome with emotion, but not before I saw the photographs of Roman Vishniac.

From 1933 to 1939, Vishniac produced a photographic expose of Jewish communities in Central and Western Europe. His naturalistic photos are a brilliant record of life in the ghettos of Europe.